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 am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.
The doctor of the future will give no medication, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet and in the cause and prevention of disease. ~
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.
Accomplishing something provides the only real satisfaction in life.
What is a college? An institute of learning. What is a business? An institute of learning. Life, itself, is an institute of learning.
I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
I am wondering what would have happened to me if 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 do not believe I could have accomplished a great deal. This country would not amount to as much as it does if the young men of fifty years ago had been afraid that they might earn more than they were paid for.
Great ideas originate in the muscles.
The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.
I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.
I am 67, but I'm not too old to make a fresh start.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.