Thomas Edison Quotes :
“Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
“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.”
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”
“I never did a day’s work in my life. It was all fun.”
“The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.”
“Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won’t work.”
“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.”
“There’s a way to do it better – find 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.”
“The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is that it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.”
“The value of an idea lies in the using of it.”
“Anything that won’t sell, I don’t want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.”
“I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.”
“There is no substitute for hard work.”
“Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.”
“Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.”
“To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.”
“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.”