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
I didn’t fail ten thousand times. I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times, materials and combinations which wouldn’t work.
I did not fail two thousand times. I merely found two thousand ways not to make a lightbulb.
Show me a completely contented person and I'll show you a failure.
I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.
Each time you fail, you have eliminated another wrong option.
Most people don't recognize opportunity when it comes, because it's usually dressed in overalls and looks a lot like work.
Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. that's not the place to become discouraged.
If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.
If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves.
There ain't no rules around here, we're trying to accomplish something.
Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.
Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.
We now know a thousand ways not to build a light bulb
If we all did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves