“Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won’t work.”
“Anything that won’t sell, I don’t want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.”
“Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.”
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
“There’s a way to do it better – find it.”
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
“I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.”
“I never did a day’s work in my life. It was all fun.”
“The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is that it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.”
“There is no substitute for hard work.”
“The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.”
“Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.”
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
“To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.”
“The value of an idea lies in the using of it.”
“The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.”
“Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.”
Thomas Edison Quotes :
“Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
“Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment, and to either of these ends, there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.”
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”