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American - Inventor February 11, 1847 - October 18, 1931 See also: Quotes about Thomas Edison

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

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

Work Opportunity People

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

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

Work Failure Just

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

Motivational Time Always

There's a way to do it better - find it. - Thomas A. Edison

There's a way to do it better - find it. Thomas A. Edison

Motivational Better Way

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

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

Work Hard Work Hard

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

Life Success Failure

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

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

Inspirational Capable Things

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

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

Wisdom Genius Inspiration

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

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

Business Useless Just Because

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

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

Good Imagination Need

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The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet, and the cause and prevention of disease. Thomas A. Edison

Future Diet Doctor

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

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

Business Hell Trying

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

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 Work Opportunity

What you are will show in what you do. - Thomas A. Edison

What you are will show in what you do. Thomas A. Edison

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

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

Wisdom Work Great

The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around. - Thomas A. Edison

The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around. Thomas A. Edison

Funny Brain Body

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 Intelligence Always

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

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 Man Progress

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

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

Everything He Who

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

Ethics Living Stop

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. - Thomas A. Edison

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. Thomas A. Edison

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

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

The value of an idea lies in the using of it. - Thomas A. Edison

The value of an idea lies in the using of it. Thomas A. Edison

Value Lies Idea

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

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

Progress First Necessity

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything. - Thomas A. Edison

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything. Thomas A. Edison

Know Anything Percent

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

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

Work Never Anything

To have a great idea, have a lot of them. - Thomas A. Edison

To have a great idea, have a lot of them. Thomas A. Edison

Great Imagination Idea

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

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

Friendship World Friends

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

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

Best Done Thinking

Religion is all bunk. - Thomas A. Edison

Religion is all bunk. Thomas A. Edison

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

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

Your Worth Consists

Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged. Thomas A. Edison

Impossible Man Place

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

Faith Courage Business

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 Anything Proof

Great ideas originate in the muscles. - Thomas A. Edison

Great ideas originate in the muscles. Thomas A. Edison

Great Imagination Ideas

The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants. Thomas A. Edison

Community Body Cells

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

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

Youth Maturity More

Thomas A. Edison Work Quotes

I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill. Thomas A. Edison

I Am Proud Never

Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless. Thomas A. Edison

Time Will Person

When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes. Thomas A. Edison

Result Ahead Make

What a man's mind can create, man's character can control. Thomas A. Edison

Character Man Mind

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

Death Science War

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success. Thomas A. Edison

Success Work World

I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision. Thomas A. Edison

Intelligence World Everything

There is far more opportunity than there is ability. - Thomas A. Edison

There is far more opportunity than there is ability. Thomas A. Edison

Opportunity Ability Far

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success. Thomas A. Edison

Success Work Money

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work. Thomas A. Edison

I start where the last man left off. - Thomas A. Edison

I start where the last man left off. Thomas A. Edison

Man Start Where

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

Work Effort People

To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity. Thomas A. Edison

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

They Say Forward President

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine. Thomas A. Edison

Genius Inspiration Content

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