“Thomas Edison said, If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.” — Faleena Hopkins Copy Share Image
“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. -Thomas A. Edison” — Joe Tichio Copy Share Image
“Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration - said the genius who was 1% showman and 99% fraud.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.” Thomas A. Edison” — Aaron Council Copy Share Image
“Thomas Edison is often said to have advised, “To have a great idea, have a lot of them.” — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
“I have not failed,” said Thomas Edison. “I’ve just found ten thousand ways that won’t work.” — Margaret Moore Copy Share Image
If it were not for Thomas Edison, we would all be watching television in the dark. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Yes, my grandfather worked with Thomas Edison on the electric car, and he sold electric cars at the 1900 World's Fair in Paris. — Al Jardine Copy Share Image
“So I know she forgives me, just as I forgive her. Thomas Edison's last words were: "It's very beautiful over there." I… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Thomas Edison walks into a bar and orders a beer. The bartender says, "Okay, I'll serve you a beer. Just don't get… — Various Copy Share Image
“HEALING FOODS The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and… — Naya Lizardo Copy Share Image
“They gave Saint Patrick his own day and what did he do but run out a bunch of snakes. Why, Thomas Edison… — Fannie Flagg Copy Share Image
“The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.” — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
To read is to have experiences; every book changes my life at least a little bit. The first time I can remember… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
One of my favorite quotes from Thomas Edison is, "If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would… — Suzanne Bates Copy Share Image
Thomas Edison dreamed of a lamp that could be operated by electricity, began where he stood to put his dream into action,… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
He [Thomas Edison] considered [money] as a raw material, like metal, to be used rather than amassed, and so he kept plowing… — Charles Edison Copy Share Image
“Thomas Edison once said, “One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves… — Paul R. Niven Copy Share Image
When Edison first started out with his "crazy" idea for the light bulb, skeptics were unmoved. They called Thomas Edison a con… — Linda Rottenberg Copy Share Image
Fall forward. Here's what I mean: Reggie Jackson struck out 2,600 times in his career - the most in the history of… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
Thomas Edison had great visions (for lights, music players, movies, etc.) but he knew they didn't count until he could make them… — Philip Kotler Copy Share Image
If he [Thomas Edison] had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it was most… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
As a writer, politician, scientist, and businessman, [Ben] Franklin had few equals among the educated of his day-though he left school at… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
“I came from Paris in the Spring of 1884, and was brought in intimate contact with him [Thomas Edison]. We experimented day… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
“Thomas Edison was no an inventor but a very evil wealthy man with connections to the most wealthy Americans. He killed animals… — James Thomas Kesterson Jr Copy Share Image
“We’ve all heard the usual examples: Michael Jordan cut from his high school basketball team, Walt Disney fired by a newspaper editor… — Shawn Achor Copy Share Image
“The attitude which the man in the street unconsciously adopts towards science is capricious and varied. At one moment he scorns the… — Percy Williams Bridgman Copy Share Image
“The availability of cheap effective lighting alone, following Thomas Edison’s invention of the incandescent bulb in 1879, greatly extended the range of… — Clark Strand Copy Share Image
His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
“There's no pride for me in my skin being white. I was born this way, I had no choice, I had no… — T.J. Kirk Copy Share Image
“I thought at first that she was just dead. Just darkness...I thought about the slow process of becoming bone and then fossil… — John Green Copy Share Image
“{ From Luther Burbank 's funeral. He was loved until he revealed he was an atheist, then he began to receive death… — Ben Lindsey Copy Share Image
I had to do four years of undergraduate. I went to Thomas Edison State University in Trenton. — Isaac Wright Jr Copy Share Image
“My first hero was Thomas Edison, whose adult life had consisted entirely of free time.” — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the real labor of thinking. —THOMAS EDISON” — David Allen Copy Share Image
“The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around. —THOMAS A. EDISON” — David Perlmutter Copy Share Image
“Thomas Edison’s teachers told him he was “too stupid to learn anything.” — Sean Patrick Copy Share Image
Steve Jobs was the greatest inventor since Thomas Edison. He put the world at our fingertips. — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
![“He [Thomas Edison] considered [money] as a raw material, like metal, to be used rather than amassed, and so he kept plowing his funds into new projects. Several times he was all but bankrupt. But he refused to let dollar signs govern his actions.” quote by Charles Edison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/14c/charles-edison-29813_action_he-thomas-edison-considered-money-as-a-r_1310716.jpg)
![“If he [Thomas Edison] had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it was most likely to be, but would proceed at once with the feverish diligence of a bee, to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. ... [J]ust a little theory and calculation…” quote by Nikola Tesla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a00/nikola-tesla-1383_bees_if-he-thomas-edison-had-a-needle-to-find_97217.jpg)
![“As a writer, politician, scientist, and businessman, [Ben] Franklin had few equals among the educated of his day-though he left school at ten. (...)Boys like Andrew Carnegie who begged his mother not to send him to school and was well on his way to immortality and fortune at the age of thirteen…” quote by John Taylor Gatto](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/95b/john-taylor-gatto-4736_age_as-a-writer-politician-scientist-and-bus_517341.jpg)
![“I came from Paris in the Spring of 1884, and was brought in intimate contact with him [Thomas Edison]. We experimented day and night, holidays not excepted. His existence was made up of alternate periods of work and sleep in the laboratory. He had no hobby, cared for no sport or amusement of any…” quote by Nikola Tesla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e99/nikola-tesla-1383_amusement_i-came-from-paris-in-the-spring-of-1884_1434856.jpg)
![“His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all unless blind chance intervened and, at first, I was almost a sorry witness of his doings, knowing that just a little theory and calculation would have saved him 90 per cent of…” quote by Nikola Tesla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a44/nikola-tesla-1383_accomplishment_his-thomas-edison-method-was-inefficient_1165798.jpg)
