Thomas A. Edison
32 quotations
Discontent is the first necessity of progress.
I start where the last man left off.
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
To have a great idea, have a lot of them.
Great ideas originate in the muscles.
I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.
Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.
The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around
There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
Hell, there are no rules here, we are trying to accomplish something.
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.
The best thinking has been done in solitude.
What you are will show in what you do.
The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.
There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.