There seems to be no limit to which some men will go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thinking is hard work. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I am more of a sponge than an inventor. I absorb ideas from every source. I take half-matured schemes for mechanical development… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.... — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Failure is really a matter of conceit. People don't work hard because, in their conceit, they imagine they'll succeed without ever making… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident. . . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Education isn't play--and it can't be made to look like play. It is hard, hard work. But it can be made interesting… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Two per cent. is genius, and ninety-eight per cent. is hard work. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness... Unfortunately, many of life's failures are… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
We are striking it big in the electric light, better than my vivid imagination first conceived. Where this thing is going to stop Lord… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I will not say I failed 1000 times, I will say that I discovered there are 1000 ways that can cause failure — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The very first thing an executive must have is a fine memory. Of course it does not follow that a man with a fine… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The brain can be developed just the same as the muscles can be developed, if on will only take the pains to train the… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
“People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project nor contribute a pound of material, will collect more money from… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I remember that I was never able to get along at school. I was at the foot of the class. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
