Thomas A. Edison Quotes

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Thomas A. Edison

Motivational, Time, Greatest

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison

Work, Found, Won

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas A. Edison

Work, Looks, Missed

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Thomas A. Edison

Friendship, Friends, Whose

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas A. Edison

Failure, Life, Success

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
Thomas A. Edison

Work, Busy, Real

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas A. Edison

Genius, Percent

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
Thomas A. Edison

Business, Trying, Hell

The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
Thomas A. Edison

Work, Hard, Around

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

Ourselves, Capable, Literally

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
Thomas A. Edison

Goal, Living, Until

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To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Thomas A. Edison

Imagination, Good, Junk

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
Thomas A. Edison

Business, Mean, Useless

There is no substitute for hard work.
Thomas A. Edison

Work, Hard, Substitute

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.
Thomas A. Edison

Life, Work, Fun

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
Thomas A. Edison

Work, Great, Hard

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas A. Edison

Failure, Show, Progress

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.
Thomas A. Edison

Progress, Necessity, Discontent

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
Thomas A. Edison

War, Death, Science

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
Thomas A. Edison

Work, Nor, Accident

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!
Thomas A. Edison

Courage, Faith, Business

Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.
Thomas A. Edison

Maturity, Often, Youth

Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
Thomas A. Edison

Success, Won, Sell

Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.
Thomas A. Edison

Worth, Consists

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
Thomas A. Edison

Him, While, Waits

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: February 11, 1847

Died: October 18, 1931

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