Bulbs Quote by Benjamin Carson

Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

— Napoleon Hill

I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.

— Thomas A. Edison

I did not fail two thousand times. I merely found two thousand ways not to make a lightbulb.

— Thomas A. Edison

I never once failed at making a light bulb. I just found out 99 ways not to make one.

— Thomas A. Edison

I know of over 3,000 ways [that] a light bulb does not work.

— Thomas A. Edison

Edison failed ten thousand times before he perfected the modern electric lamp. The average man would have quit at the first failure. That's why…

— Pete Seeger

Of the 200 light bulbs that didn't work, every failure told me something that I was able to incorporate into the next attempt.

— Thomas A. Edison

I never failed, I just found 10,000 ways not to make a lightbulb

— Anonymous

It is technically a failure when you don't try.

— Uma Thurman

“I have not failed,” said Thomas Edison. “I’ve just found ten thousand ways that won’t work.”

— Margaret Moore

Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.

— Douglas Coupland

Failure is a gift and it becomes a bridge to the next thing, a better thing, the thing that works.

— Kendra Scott