Having a vision for what you want is not enough...Vision without execution is hallucination — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
“Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.” — 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
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast — 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
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character. — 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
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge. — 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
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
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect… — 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
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions… — 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
Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous. — 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
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. As a result, a genius is often a talented person who has simply… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything… — 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
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
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
The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now,… — 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
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
