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
The real measure of success is the number of experiments that can be crowded into 24 hours.
Accomplishing something provides the only real satisfaction in life.
You can't realize your dreams unless you have one to begin with.
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
Being busy does not always mean real work.
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