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Best Work Quotes by Thomas A. Edison
- No, I haven't failed thousands of times. On the contrary, I have successfully eliminated thousands of ideas that do not work!
- During all those years of experimentation and research, I never once made a discovery. All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved were…
- Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
- Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
- Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must…
- There is no substitute for hard work.
- The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
- I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.
- I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
- It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
- What you are will show in what you do.
- Great ideas originate in the muscles.
- I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
- Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
- One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find…
- Failure is really a matter of conceit. People don't work hard because, in their conceit, they imagine they'll succeed without ever making an effort. Most…
- Work while others are wishing.
- I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I…
- Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. It is astonishing how many have difficulty in putting…
- Opportunity is missed by most people, because its dressed in overalls and looks like work! Thomas Edison
- I have not failed. I have just found 10,000 things that do not work.
- Thomas A. Edison Quotes Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of…
- Oppurtunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
More Work Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. — Aristotle
- Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. — Aristotle
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- The end of labor is to gain leisure. — Aristotle
- I try to work on shows that I would want to watch. — J. J. Abrams
- I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe… — Dean Acheson
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach