Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged.… — 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
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.... — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Most of my ideas belonged to other people who never bothered to develop them. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Before you reject an idea, find at least five good things about it. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I have not failed. I have successfully discovered 1200 ideas that don't work. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I've realized that most of my best ideas have followed a good night's sleep. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
No, I haven't failed thousands of times. On the contrary, I have successfully eliminated thousands of ideas that do not work! — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an… — 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
