Quotes By Thomas A. Edison

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

What you are will show in what you do.

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.

To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.

What a man's mind can create, man's character can control.

Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.

I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.

The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.

Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.

If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

There is no substitute for hard work.

There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Religion is all bunk.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

There's a way to do it better - find it.

Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.

I start where the last man left off.

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.

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