The very first thing an executive must have is a fine memory. Of course it does not follow that a man with… — 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… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
When we learn how to store electricity, we will cease being apes ourselves; until then we are tailless orangutans. You see, we… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! Any other bright-minded fellow can accomplish just as much if he will stick like… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
IF PARENTS PASS ENTHUSIASM ALONG TO THEIR CHILDREN, THEY WILL LEAVE THEM AN ESTATE OF INCALCULABLE VALUE — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I believe that the motion picture is destined to revolutionize our educational system and that in a few years it will supplant… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Today, I am wondering what would have happened to me by now, if, fifty years ago, some fluent talker had converted me… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Nobody knows whether our personalities pass on to another existence or sphere, but if we can evolve an instrument so delicate to… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
If I had not had so much ambition and not tried to do so many things, I probably would have been happier,… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
It is the people who constitute the basis of Government credit. Why then cannot the people have benefit of their own gilt-edge… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The money one gets for selling one's soul is always spent in deadening one's conscience, so the net gain at the end… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
When there's no experimenting there's no progress. Stop experimenting and you go backward. If anything goes wrong, experiment until you get to… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Mr. Edison worked endlessly on a problem, using the method of elimination. If a person asked him if he were discouraged because… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
An average American loves his family. If he has any love left over for some other person, he generally selects Mark Twain. — 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
Nature is what we know. We do not know the gods of religions. And nature is not kind, or merciful, or loving.… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
It is very different to make a practical system and to introduce it. A few experiments in the laboratory would prove the… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Results? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results! If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
It is absurd to say that our country can issue $30,000,000 in bonds and not $30,000,000 in currency. Both are promises to… — 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
If the Nation can issue a dollar bond it can issue a dollar bill. The element that makes the bond good makes… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present. — 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
