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
Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor....' — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Never Say I Failed 99 Times, Say I Discovered 99 Ways Which Causes Failure! — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I do not believe in the God of the theologians; but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
We haven't failed. We now know a thousand things that won't work, so we are much closer to finding what will. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. It is astonishing how many have… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
My success is due more to my ability to work continuously on one thing without stopping than to any other single quality. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Incurably religious, that is the best way to describe the mental condition of so many people. — 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
I am afraid of radium and polonium ... I don't want to monkey with them. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus... — 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
