Average Quote by Pete Seeger

The average person would have quit at the first failure. That’s why there have been many average men and only one Edison.

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Nathan Fielder

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

When Edison first started out with his "crazy" idea for the light bulb, skeptics were unmoved. They called Thomas Edison a con man and…

— Linda Rottenberg

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

— Margaret Moore

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

The old idea that some genius pulls all of this stuff out of the air is ridiculous. As Ridley pointed out, the only way…

— Charles Koch

“No invention ever comes into being fully developed in a single step, from nothing. Ten thousand inventions had to be in place before Edison…

— Daniel Quinn

“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

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

“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