Innovation Quote by Thomas A. Edison

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

— Plato

I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident. . . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved…

— Thomas A. Edison

None of my inventions came by accident. I see a worthwhile need to be met and I make trial after trial until it comes.…

— Thomas A. Edison

Mostly all famous inventions start off as an accidents. For instance, my invention of running over cats.

— Nikhil Saluja

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. No, when I…

— Thomas A. Edison

I invented nothing new. I simply combined the inventions of others into a car. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years…

— Henry Ford

I used to be an amateur inventor when I was a kid; I'm always inventing something.

— Alan Alda

Pretty much all of my inventions come about the same way. I have an everyday problem or something that I'm too lazy to do,…

— Simone Giertz

Nobody ever invents anything You're inspired and sometimes you can improve.

— Sebastien Foucan

To me, the greatest invention of my lifetime is the laptop computer and the fact that I can be working on a book and…

— Bill Bryson

Significant inventions are not mere accidents. The erroneous view [that they are] is widely held, and it is one that the scientific and technical…

— Paul Flory

I invented nothing new, I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom there was centuries of work.

— Henry Ford