"I have friends in overalls whose friendship..." - Quote by Thomas Edison
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
More by Thomas Edison
“The only thing I use my body for is to carry my brain around.”
“I get my ideas from listening from within.”
“People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project (Muscle Shoals Dam) nor contribute a pound of material, will collect more money from the United States than will the People who supply all the material and do all the work. This is the terrible thing about interest.”
More on Friendship
“Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life.”
“All you need to do to be my friend is like me.”
“A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.”
More on Value
“I recently bought a book of free verse. For twelve dollars.”
“The smoke of glory is not worth the smoke of a pipe.”
“A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer.”