Average Quote by Napoleon Hill

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

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

— Napoleon Hill

“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. Thomas Edison”

— Nancy C. Weeks

“Thomas Edison once said, “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”…

— Jane Friedman

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

— Margaret Moore

His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all unless blind…

— Nikola Tesla

Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions.

— Ernest Dimnet

Most failures could have been converted into successes if someone had held on another minute or made more effort.

— Napoleon Hill

It's a failure only if you don't get anything out of it, Thomas Edison said he knew 999 ways that a light bulb did…

— Benjamin Carson

If Edison was worried about his candle customers, he would have never invented the light bulb.

— Nathan Fielder

In the end, everyone loses everyone. There was no invention to get around that.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

The recurrence of a phenomenon like Edison is not very likely. The profound change of conditions and the ever increasing necessity of theoretical training…

— Nikola Tesla