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
Never Say I Failed 99 Times, Say I Discovered 99 Ways Which Causes Failure! — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Fooling around with alternating currents is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever. It's too dangerous . . .… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Sleep is like a drug. Take too much at a time and it makes you dopey. You lose time and opportunities. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The greatest discoveries will be along spiritual lines. This is the field where miracles are going to happen. Spiritual power is the… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I did not fail two thousand times. I merely found two thousand ways not to make a lightbulb. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
That is to say, under the old way any time we wish to add to the national wealth we are compelled to… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Let the public throw bouquets to the inventors and in time we will all be happy. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
People are not remembered by how few times they fail, but by how often they succeed. Every wrong step is another step… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will involve the patient in the proper use of food, fresh air… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I have not failed 10,000 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 10,000 ways will not work, — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I didn’t fail ten thousand times. I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times, materials and combinations which wouldn’t work. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can't afford to lose. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
No, I haven't failed thousands of times. On the contrary, I have successfully eliminated thousands of ideas that do not work! — 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
