Famous Quotes / Thomas A. Edison
87 Quotations by Thomas A. Edison
- 41. My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions....
- 42. My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of other ...
- 43. Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and the ...
- 44. One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his ...
- 45. Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- 46. Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- 47. Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one m ...
- 48. Relentlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.
- 49. Remember, nothing that's good works by itself, just to please you. You have to make the damn thing w ...
- 50. Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress
- 51. Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly s ...
- 52. Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
- 53. The best thinking has been done in solitude.
- 54. The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.
- 55. The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around
- 56. The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one pro ...
- 57. The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one prob ...
- 58. The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing ov ...
- 59. The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.
- 60. The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and C ...