Thomas A. Edison

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”

“Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.”

“Restlessness is discontent, and discontent is the first necessity of progress.”

“I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live only about a hundred years.”

“Be courageous! ... I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has come out stronger and more prosperous. Be as brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward.”

“Results? Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.”

“I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.”

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

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls, and looks like work.”

“As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.”

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

“The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.”

“If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”

“Study, along the lines which the theologies have mapped, will never lead us to discovery of the fundamental facts of our existence. That goal must be attained by means of exact science and c...”

“...What I have denied and what my reason compels me to deny, is the existence of a Being throned above us as a god, directing our mundane affairs in detail, regarding us as individuals, puni...”

“Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.”

“To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.”

“The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind of a child is naturally active, it develops through...”

“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...”

“Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.”