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Work Quotes by Thomas A. Edison
- Results? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results! If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because…
- We haven't failed. We now know a thousand things that won't work, so we are much closer to finding what will.
- An idea is something that won't work unless you do.
- I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident. . . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by…
- The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness....
- I am wondering what would have happened to me if some fluent talker had converted me to the theory of the eight-hour day and convinced…
- I have been at work for some time building an apparatus to see if it is possible for personalities which have left this earth to…
- I have not failed 10,000 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 10,000 ways will not work,
- When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.
- Success is the result of hard work.
- I think work is the world's greatest fun.
- I have not failed. I have successfully discovered 1200 ideas that don't work.
- As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could…
- Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence.... Its not…
- There is no subsitute for hard work.
- Through all the years of experimenting and research, I never once made a discovery. I start where the last man left off. All my work…
- The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness... Unfortunately, many of life's failures are experienced by people…
- I would construct and work along various lines until I found them untenable. When one theory was discarded, I developed another at once. I realized…
- 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…
- Oh these mathematicians make me tired! When you ask them to work out a sum they take a piece of paper, cover it with rows…
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- Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory. — Ralph Waldo Emerson