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I do not believe in the God of the theologians; but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt.
— Thomas A. Edison
Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
— Thomas A. Edison
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions ...
— Thomas A. Edison
We haven't failed. We now know a thousand things that won't work, so we are much closer to finding what will.
— Thomas A. Edison
From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
— Thomas A. Edison
In creating technology for ourselves we created it for the world.
— Thomas A. Edison
I probably did too much thinking in India. I blame it on the roads, for they were superb ...
— Robert Edison Fulton Jr.
I do not believe any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States.
— Thomas A. Edison
I have been at work for some time building an apparatus to see if it is possible for personalities which have left this earth to communicate with us.
— Thomas A. Edison
I am a man who knows nothing, guesses sometimes, finds frequently and who's always amazed.
— Villiers De L'Isle-Adam
Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership.
— Charles Edison
It is remarkable to what lengths people will go to avoid thought.
— Thomas A. Edison
We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present.
— Thomas A. Edison
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
— Thomas A. Edison
Youth doesn't take advice.
— Thomas A. Edison
Everything comes to those who hustle while they wait.
— Thomas A. Edison
Vision without execution is delusion.
— Thomas A. Edison
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the real labor of thinking.
— Thomas A. Edison
But wherever there is man, there must be some sort of route
— Robert Edison Fulton Jr.
If we did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves." - Thomas Edison
— Brian P. Moran
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness ...
— Thomas A. Edison
A teacher sent the following note home with a six-year-old boy 'He is too stupid to learn.' That boy was Thomas A. Edison.
— Thomas A. Edison
It's a failure only if you don't get anything out of it, Thomas Edison said he knew 999 ways that a light bulb did not work; yet we have lights today.
— Benjamin Carson
A failure teaches you that something can't be done-that way.
— Thomas A. Edison
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
— Thomas A. Edison
Sticking to it is the genius.
— Thomas A. Edison
I am a vegetarian as well as a passionate anti-alcoholic, because I can thus make better use of my brain.
— Thomas A. Edison
There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Thank God we can start a new.
— Thomas A. Edison
Success is based on imagination plus ambition and the will to work.
— Thomas A. Edison
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
— Thomas A. Edison
I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
— Thomas A. Edison
Genius is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration.
— Thomas A. Edison
The endeavor to change universal power by selfish supplication I do not believe in.
— Thomas A. Edison
Books will soon be obsolete in the schools ... Our school system will be completely changed in the next ten years.
— Thomas A. Edison
I haven't failed,I have just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
— Thomas A. Edison
I start where the last man left off.
— Thomas A. Edison
Tomorrow Is My Exam But I Don't Care Because A Single Sheet Of Paper Can't Decide My Future
— Thomas A. Edison
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
— Thomas A. Edison
Never Say I Failed 99 Times, Say I Discovered 99 Ways Which Causes Failure!
— Thomas A. Edison
Of the 200 light bulbs that didn't work, every failure told me something that I was able to incorporate into the next attempt.
— Thomas A. Edison
Today. By the end of 1882, Edison's company is powering electric light for the entire Pearl Street district in Lower Manhattan.
— Steven Johnson
I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
— Thomas A. Edison
The secret of success is focus of purpose.
— Thomas A. Edison
The First 40 hours of work per week are for survival. Everything after that is for success.
— Thomas A. Edison
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
— Thomas A. Edison
Edison concentrated upon the work of harmonizing natural laws
— Napoleon Hill
The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child.
— Thomas A. Edison
Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still.
— Charles Edison
They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.
— Thomas A. Edison
It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
— Thomas A. Edison
The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
— Thomas A. Edison
To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.
— Thomas A. Edison
The roots of tobacco plants must go clear through to hell. Satan's principal agent Dyspepsia must have charge of this branch of the vegetable kingdom.
— Thomas A. Edison
Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.
— Thomas A. Edison
Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
— Thomas A. Edison
Genius is not inspired. Inspiration is perspiration.
— Thomas A. Edison
Two per cent. is genius, and ninety-eight per cent. is hard work.
— Thomas A. Edison
I get my ideas from listening from within.
— Thomas A. Edison
I never failed. It just didn't work 10,000 times.
— Thomas A. Edison
There cannot be overproduction of anything which men and women want. And their wants are unlimited, except by the size of their stomachs.
— Thomas A. Edison
I start where the last man left off. What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of a man can achieve.
— Thomas A. Edison
The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.
— Thomas A. Edison
I will not say I failed 1000 times, I will say that I discovered there are 1000 ways that can cause failure
— Thomas A. Edison
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
— Thomas A. Edison
For faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
— Thomas A. Edison
There seems to be no limit to which some men will go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thinking is hard work.
— Thomas A. Edison
Religion is all bunk.
— Thomas A. Edison
There's a poster with Thomas Edison's quote: GENIUS IS 1 PERCENT INSPIRATION AND 99 PERCENT PERSPIRATION.
— Lauren Oliver
There is time for everything.
— Thomas A. Edison
No, I haven't failed thousands of times. On the contrary, I have successfully eliminated thousands of ideas that do not work!
— Thomas A. Edison
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.
— Thomas A. Edison
Interest is the invention of Satan.
— Thomas A. Edison
Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best
— Thomas A. Edison
An average American loves his family. If he has any love left over for some other person, he generally selects Mark Twain.
— Thomas A. Edison
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
— Thomas A. Edison
Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.
— Thomas A. Edison
Sleep is like a drug. Take too much at a time and it makes you dopey. You lose time and opportunities.
— Thomas A. Edison
The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
— Thomas A. Edison
My principal professional objective is to introduce intelligence as the ubiquitous utility. I'd like to be the Thomas Edison of intelligence.
— Michael J. Saylor
I didn't fail ten thousand times.
I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times,
materials and combinations which wouldn't work. — Thomas A. Edison
I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times,
materials and combinations which wouldn't work. — Thomas A. Edison
I can never pick up a thing without wishing to improve it.
— Thomas A. Edison
There is no subsitute for hard work.
— Thomas A. Edison
My mother was the making of me.
— Thomas A. Edison
Consider data without prejudice.
— Thomas A. Edison
Incurably religious, that is the best way to describe the mental condition of so many people.
— Thomas A. Edison
A lawsuit is the suicide of time.
— Thomas A. Edison
As Danand Ian over at the Lifestyle Business Podcast say: Rush to failure.
— Thomas A. Edison
I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious theories of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.
— Thomas A. Edison
I am so deaf I am debarred from hearing all the time articulation and have to depend on the judgment of others.
— Thomas A. Edison