Thomas A. Edison
They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.
I never view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn't work.Collection: Mistake
Having a vision for what you want is not enough...Vision without execution is hallucinationCollection: Motivational
There is a better way for everything. Find it.Collection: Inspirational
Each time you fail, you have eliminated another wrong option.Collection: Failure
Success is 90% perspiration and 10% inspiration!Collection: Business
A genius is a talented person who does his homework.Collection: Ballet
You can't realize your dreams unless you have one to begin with.Collection: Dream
I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.Collection: Light
Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.Collection: Thinking
Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can't afford to lose.Collection: Time
The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child.Collection: Children
The secret of success is focus of purpose.Collection: Focus
The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.Collection: Success
Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.Collection: Inspirational
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will involve the patient in the proper use of food, fresh air and exerciseCollection: Exercise
We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.Collection: Inspirational
I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.Collection: Inspirational
Remember, life is all what you focus on. Learn lessons and keep moving forward towards your goals and dreams... "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."Collection: Dream
The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus.Collection: Focus
The First 40 hours of work per week are for survival. Everything after that is for success.Collection: Survival
Accomplishing something provides the only real satisfaction in life.Collection: Real
Today, I am wondering what would have happened to me by now, if, fifty years ago, some fluent talker had converted me to the theory of the eight-hour day and convinced me that it was not fair to my fellow-workers to put forth my best efforts in my work? I am glad that the eight-hour day had not been invented when I was a young man. If my life had been made up of eight-hour days, I don't believe I could have accomplished a great deal.Collection: Life
I failed my way to success.Collection: Inspirational
Never Say I Failed 99 Times, Say I Discovered 99 Ways Which Causes Failure!Collection: Way
I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.Collection: Funny Inspirational
Success depends on how many experiments you can fit into 24 hoursCollection: Fit
I am a vegetarian as well as a passionate anti-alcoholic, because I can thus make better use of my brain.Collection: Animal
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.Collection: Inspirational
Sticking to it is the genius.Collection: Children
To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction.Collection: Thinking
Mr. Edison worked endlessly on a problem, using the method of elimination. If a person asked him if he were discouraged because so many attempts proved unavailing, he would say, "No, I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.".Collection: Steps
The injurious agent in cigarettes comes principally from the burning paper wrapper. The substance thereby formed is called "acrolein." It has a violent action on the nerve centers, producing degeneration of the cells of the brain, which is quite rapid among boys. Unlike most narcotics, this degeneration is permanent and uncontrollable. I employ no person who smokes cigarettes.Collection: Science
Friendship is the heaven of life.Collection: Heaven
To get a great idea, come up with lots of them.Collection: Creativity
The dove is my emblem.Collection: Technology
When there's no experimenting there's no progress. Stop experimenting and you go backward. If anything goes wrong, experiment until you get to the very bottom of the trouble.Collection: Progress
Youth doesn't take advice.Collection: Advice
Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.Collection: Success
The great trouble is that the preachers get the children from six to seven years of age and then it is almost impossible to do anything with them.Collection: Children
The money one gets for selling one's soul is always spent in deadening one's conscience, so the net gain at the end of a lifetime is no greater than if the diabolic bargain had not been struck.Collection: Animal
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.Collection: Motivational
Focus on how the end-user customers perceive the impact of your innovation - rather than on how you, the innovators, perceive it.Collection: Impact
I am much less interested in what is called God's word than in God's deeds. All bibles are man-made.Collection: Men
If I could solve all the problems myself, I would.Collection: Teamwork
Every wrong attempt discarded is another step forwardCollection: Perseverance
During all those years of experimentation and research, I never once made a discovery. All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved were those of invention, pure and simple. I would construct a theory and work on its lines until I found it was untenable. Then it would be discarded at once and another theory evolved. This was the only possible way for me to work out the problem.Collection: Simple
I try not to invent things that people don't need.Collection: People