Edison Quotes

60 quotes by 50 authors

If you are to use Alexander Graham Bellâ€™s product, which is to say the blower, you should, in all courtesy, use it as he would… — Mark Forsyth
The average person would have quit at the first failure. Thatâ€™s why there have been many average men and only one Edison. — Napoleon Hill
I had moved out of the Edison Hotel because I couldn't pay the bill and was living at the Lincoln Hotel, where I couldn't pay… — Allan Sherman
Work outside of school hours was a necessity at an early age, and with such time as I had I turned toward interests of my… — Chester Carlson
A very few musicians passed across all decades. In terms of trumpet playing, Louis Armstrong does it of course but Sweets [Edison] is right up… — Freddie Hubbard
Steve Jobs was the greatest inventor since Thomas Edison. He put the world at our fingertips. — Steven Spielberg
If Edison was worried about his candle customers, he would have never invented the light bulb. — Nathan Fielder
You want to be the first to do something. You want to create something. You want to innovate something...I often think of Edison inventing the… — David Keirsey
A reporter called on Edison to interview him about a substitute for lead in the manufacture of storage batteries that the scientist was seeking. Edison… — Thomas A. Edison
Being realistic is the most commonly travelled road to mediocrity. What's the point of being realistic? It's unrealistic to walk into a room, flip a… — Will Smith
History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind. Surely, Watt with his steam engine, Faraday with his electric motor, and… — Joseph Heller
I have two mini huskies called Woody Guthrie and Edison Guthrie. — Dhani Harrison
Ask a Soviet engineer to design a pair of shoes and he'll come up with something that looks like the boxes that the shoes came… — Neal Stephenson
To me, Arnold was a pioneer in the spirit of Thomas Edison or Benjamin Franklin, while Tiger is a pioneer in the spirit of Bill… — Mark McCormack
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
I've always said Thomas Edison invented the movie camera to show people killing and kissing. — Quentin Tarantino
The greatest Electrical Pioneer of them all was Thomas Edison Edison's first major invention, in 1877, was the phonograph, which could soon be found in… — Dave Barry
Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations of ideas- not only the ideas of an Edison… — Thomas Sowell
I'm one of those people that think Thomas Edison and the light bulb changed the world more than Karl Marx ever did. — Steve Jobs
The outer is easier, and the outer is objective. For example, one man, Thomas Alva Edison, discovers electricity and the whole of humanity uses it;… — Rajneesh

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