Edison Quote by XV

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— KRS-One

“Edison concentrated upon the work of harmonizing natural laws”

— Napoleon Hill

Yes, my grandfather worked with Thomas Edison on the electric car, and he sold electric cars at the 1900 World's Fair in Paris.

— Al Jardine

The most famous self-made man in the world today is our own Edison. Talk with Mr. Edison and he will tell you he owes…

— B. C. Forbes

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

When Marconi suggested the possibility of wireless transmission of sound (the radio),he was committed to a mental institution. But people like Lincoln, Edison, and…

— Anonymous

Mr Edison gave America just what was needed at that moment in history. They say that when people think of me, they think of…

— Henry Ford

Now, suppose a Negro does something really magnificent, and I glory, not in the benefit to mankind, but in the fact that the doer…

— Zora Neale Hurston

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

— Margaret Moore

If he [Thomas Edison] had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it was most likely to…

— Nikola Tesla

Without doubt, Thomas Edison is my greatest contemporary.

— Henry Ford

“The State's got the Burden of Proof, Edison says, kind of like we do every day.”

— Jodi Picoult

“And, of course, he eventually found it—proving that genius often really is just persistence in disguise. In applying the entirety of his physical and…

— Anonymous

“Edison invented the lightbulb the way Steve Jobs invented the MP3 player: he wasn’t the first, but he was the first to make something…

— Steven Johnson

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