Edison Quotes

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What I'm trying to do is get this message out about self-empowerment, entrepreneurial spirit and true Americanism - the way we were when we changed… — Glenn Beck
We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight. — Milton Berle
When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it… — George Carlin
The recurrence of a phenomenon like Edison is not very likely. The profound change of conditions and the ever increasing necessity of theoretical training would… — Nikola Tesla
Edison was by far the most successful and, probably, the last exponent of the purely empirical method of investigation. Everything he achieved was the result… — Nikola Tesla
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… — Nikola Tesla
Mr Edison gave America just what was needed at that moment in history. They say that when people think of me, they think of my… — Henry Ford
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,… — Nikola Tesla
If Thomas Edison had gone to business school, we would all be reading by larger candles. — Mark McCormack
The Wright brothers didn't contemplate the staying on the ground of things. Alexander Graham Bell didn't contemplate the noncommunication of things. Thomas Edison didn't contemplate… — Wayne Dyer
If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as, 'Candle-making industry threatened'. — Newt Gingrich
I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe… — David Antin
Now, suppose a Negro does something really magnificent, and I glory, not in the benefit to mankind, but in the fact that the doer was… — Zora Neale Hurston
Mr. Edison worked endlessly on a problem, using the method of elimination. If a person asked him if he were discouraged because so many attempts… — Thomas A. Edison
A teacher sent the following note home with a six-year-old boy 'He is too stupid to learn.' That boy was Thomas A. Edison. — Thomas A. Edison
Without doubt, Thomas Edison is my greatest contemporary. — Henry Ford
Thomas Edison dreamed of a lamp that could be operated by electricity, began where he stood to put his dream into action, and despite more… — Napoleon Hill
Call the roll in your memory of conspicuously successful [business] giants and, if you know anything about their careers, you will be struck by the… — B. C. Forbes
When Marconi suggested the possibility of wireless transmission of sound (the radio),he was committed to a mental institution. But people like Lincoln, Edison, and Marconi… — John Powell
I'm glad . . . that Edison didn't give up on the light bulb. That Luther refused to back down. That Michelangelo kept painting. That… — Charles R. Swindoll

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