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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 make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them. — Thomas A. Edison

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

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

Yes, my grandfather worked with Thomas Edison on the electric car, and he sold electric cars at the 1900 World's Fair in Paris. — Al Jardine

I have had a lot of success with failure — Thomas A. Edison

I have not failed. I have just found 10,000 ways it will NOT work. — Thomas Edison

If we did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves." - Thomas Edison — Brian P. Moran

Sticking to it is the genius. — Thomas A. Edison

An idea is something that won't work unless you do. — Thomas A. Edison

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 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

I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous. — Thomas A. Edison

Having a vision for what you want is not enough ... Vision without execution is hallucination — Thomas A. Edison

To me, Arnold was a pioneer in the spirit of Thomas Edison or Benjamin Franklin, while Tiger is a pioneer in the spirit of Bill Gates. — Mark McCormack

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

A failure teaches you that something can't be done-that way. — 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

The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil. — Thomas A. Edison

If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. — Thomas A. Edison

I start where the last man left off. — 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

I haven't failed,I have just found 10,000 ways that won't work. — 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

The endeavor to change universal power by selfish supplication I do not believe in. — 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

When you become quiet, it just dawns on you — 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

Success is based on imagination plus ambition and the will to work. — Thomas A. Edison

The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do. — Thomas A. Edison

They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward. — Thomas A. Edison

Most of my ideas belonged to other people who never bothered to develop them. — 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

Tomorrow Is My Exam But I Don't Care Because A Single Sheet Of Paper Can't Decide My Future — 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

All our names are just stupid nicknames they made up - like Alby for Albert Einstein, Newt for Isaac Newton, and me - Thomas. As in Edison. — Anonymous

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

I can never pick up a thing without wishing to improve it. — 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

The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child. — 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

Thomas Edison walks into a bar and orders a beer. The bartender says, "Okay, I'll serve you a beer. Just don't get any ideas. — Various

We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work — Thomas A. Edison

Let the public throw bouquets to the inventors and in time we will all be happy. — 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

Genius is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration. — 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

The real measure of success is the number of experiments that can be crowded into 24 hours. — Thomas A. Edison

I have better use for my brain than to poison it with alcohol. To put alcohol in the human brain is like putting sand in the bearings of an engine. — Thomas A. Edison