Thomas A. Edison
Thomas A. Edison
Thomas Alva Edisonwas an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and the long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. Dubbed "The Wizard of Menlo Park", he was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production and large-scale teamwork to the process of invention, and because of that, he is often credited with the creation of the first industrial research laboratory...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionInventor
Date of Birth11 February 1847
CountryUnited States of America
Thomas A. Edison quotes about
I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.
I get my ideas from listening from within.
Most of my ideas belonged to other people who never bothered to develop them.
Failure is the most effective technique to optimize strategic planning, implementation and processes.
I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.
People are not remembered by how few times they fail, but by how often they succeed. Every wrong step is another step forward
No, I haven't failed thousands of times. On the contrary, I have successfully eliminated thousands of ideas that do not work!
Being busy does not always mean real work.
Each time you fail, you have eliminated another wrong option.
I think that Ingersoll had all the attributes of a perfect man, and, in my opinion, no finer personality ever existed. Judging from the past, I cannot help thinking that the intention of the Supreme Intelligence that rules the world is to ultimately make such a type of man universal.
There is always a better way.
I am a vegetarian as well as a passionate anti-alcoholic, because I can thus make better use of my brain.
Never be discouraged, because every wrong turn attempt, when left behind you, is another step forward taking you closer to your goals.
It has been just so in all my inventions. The first step is an intuition-and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise. This thing that gives out and then that-"Bugs"as such little faults and difficulties are called show themselves and months of anxious watching, study and labor are requisite before commercial success-or failure-is certainly reached.