Thomas A. Edison Quotes

“Never be discouraged, because every wrong turn attempt, when left behind you, is another step forward taking you closer to your goals.”

“I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it”

“The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.”

“The value of an idea lies in the using of it.”

“The dove is my emblem.”

“Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.”

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

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

“I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Seventy-five of us worked twenty hours every day and slept only four hours - and thrived on it.”

“I never view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn't work.”

“Discontent is the first necessity of progress.”

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

“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.”

“I never failed. It just didn't work 10,000 times.”

“Continued innovation is the best way to beat the competition.”

“If I had not had so much ambition and not tried to do so many things, I probably would have been happier, but less useful.”

“I didn’t fail ten thousand times.I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times,materials and combinations which wouldn’t work.”

“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.”

“I am more of a sponge than an inventor. I absorb ideas from every source. I take half-matured schemes for mechanical development and make them practical. I am a sort of a middleman between the long-haired and impractical inventor and the hard-headed business man who measures all things in terms of dollars and cents. My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant but misdirected ideas of others.”

“Everything comes to those who hustle while they wait.”

“It is absurd to say that our country can issue $30,000,000 in bonds and not $30,000,000 in currency. Both are promises to pay; but one promise fattens the usurer (banker), and the other helps the people. If the currency issued by the Government were no good, then the bonds issued would be no good either. It is a terrible situation when the Government, to increase the national wealth, must go into debt and submit to ruinous interest charges at the hands of men who control the fictitious values of gold.”

“Failure is the most effective technique to optimize strategic planning, implementation and processes.”

“A genius is a talented person who does his homework.”

“I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.”

“As Danand Ian over at the Lifestyle Business Podcast say: Rush to failure.”