Thomas Edison Quotes: he was considered the world’s most brilliant and innovative mind who thought differently than others. Reading his quotes can provide innovation, success, lessons on failure, and perseverance.
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top & famous thomas edison quotes
There is no substitute for hard work.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.
The world owes nothing to any man, but every man owes something to the world.
I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
I start where the last man left off.
We often miss opportunity because it’s dressed in overalls and looks like work
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
What you are will show in what you do.
The man who doesn’t make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasure in life.
When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.
Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.
Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.
Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.
The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.
The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.
I never did a day’s work in my life, it was all fun.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
The world owes nothing to any man, but every man owes something to the world.
His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
A genius is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.
You can’t realize your dreams unless you have one to begin with.
When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven’t.
Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.
Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won’t work.
When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.
Not everything of value in life comes from books- experience the world.
The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus.
The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are: hard work, stick-to-itiveness, and common sense.
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Hell, there are no rules here – we’re trying to accomplish something.
There’s a way to do it better – find it.
Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this, you haven’t.
The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
I never view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn’t work.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won’t work.
I never did a day’s work in my life, it was all fun.
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
We don’t know a millionth of one percent about anything.
Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.
Hard work, nothing to divert my thought, clear air and simple food made my life very pleasant.
Having a vision for what you want is not enough…Vision without execution is hallucination
I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
Vision without execution is hallucination.
thomas edison quotes on success
There are no rules here, we’re trying to accomplish something.
Good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus.
Anything that won’t sell, I don’t want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
Success is 90% perspiration and 10% inspiration!
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Anything that won’t sell, I don’t want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are: hard work, stick-to-itiveness, and common sense.
When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this, you haven’t.
The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn’t like to do.
Success is the product of the severest kind of mental and physical application.
I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.
The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present.
thomas edison failure quote
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Never Say I Failed 99 Times, Say I Discovered 99 Ways Which Causes Failure!
I never view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn’t work.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is to try just one more time.
When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes
Each time you fail, you have eliminated another wrong option.
thomas edison quotes opportunity
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.
The reason a lot of people can’t find Opportunity is because old Op usually goes around disguised as Hard Work.
Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability…. We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
I never view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn’t work.
Thomas Edison quotes About Exams
Tomorrow Is My Exam But I Don’t Care Because A Single Sheet Of Paper Can’t Decide My Future.
Don’t try to cover your mistakes with false words. Rather, correct your mistakes with examination.
I never did a day’s work in my life. It was all fun.
Discontent is the first necessity of progress.
genius is 1% inspiration and 99
Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.
I hope to learn something from the Thomas Edison Quotes of the world’s most brilliant person. You can also read Nikola Tesla’s quotes.
