It is apparent to me that the possibilities of the aeroplane, which two or three years ago were thought to hold the… — 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
The inventor can't do it all, you've got to change people. We have an enormous capacity to invent super-machinery. But our desire… — 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
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
Problems in human engineering will receive during the coming years the same genius and attention which the nineteenth century gave to the… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
After we had conducted thousands of experiments on a certain project without solving the problem, one of my associates, after we had… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I would construct and work along various lines until I found them untenable. When one theory was discarded, I developed another at… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
During all those years of experimentation and research, I never once made a discovery. All my work was deductive, and the results… — 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
