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
My mother was the making of me. She was so true and so sure of me, I felt that I had someone to live for - someone I must not disappoint. The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
First be sure a thing is wanted or needed, then go ahead.
The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.
No Such Thing as Bad Results
Success is the product of the severest kind of mental and physical application,
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention. It's their 'ideas' that appeal to me. I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor
Many a person who could not comprehend Rousseau, and would be puzzled by Montesquieu, could understand Paine as an open book. He wrote with a clarity, a sharpness of outline and exactness of speech that even a schoolboy should be able to grasp.
I'll try anything...I'll even try Limburger cheese!
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others....
M. A. Rosanoff: Mr. Edison, please tell me what laboratory rules you want me to observe. Edison: There ain't no rules around here. We're trying to accomplish somep'n!
I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process.
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.
I have been at work for some time building an apparatus to see if it is possible for personalities which have left this earth to communicate with us.
The value of a good idea is in using it.