Quotes Thomas A. Edison

Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale i...

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Alw...

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all...

Discontent is the first necessity of progress....

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits....

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

Great ideas originate in the muscles....

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

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to def...

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

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work t...

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap...

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

I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everyth...

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

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventio...

I start where the last man left off....

If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literal...

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many peo...

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

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how c...

Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently...

Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the poi...

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal ...

One might think that the money value of an invention constit...