Famous Quotes / Thomas A. Edison
87 Quotations by Thomas A. Edison
- 61. The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it- ... 

 - 62. The value of an idea lies in the using of it. 

 - 63. There ain't no rules around here, we're trying to accomplish something. 

 - 64. There is always a better way. 

 - 65. There is far more opportunity than there is ability. 

 - 66. There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking. 

 - 67. There is no substitute for hard work. 

 - 68. There is time for everything. 

 - 69. There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialit ... 

 - 70. There's a way to do better... find it. 

 - 71. There's a way to do it better - find it. 

 - 72. They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward. 

 - 73. Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to w ... 

 - 74. To have a great idea, have a lot of them. 

 - 75. To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. 

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

 - 77. Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability.... We should remember  ... 

 - 78. Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge. 

 - 79. Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep t ... 

 - 80. We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything. 
