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
We now know a thousand ways not to build a light bulb
I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Continued innovation is the best way to beat the competition.
There is a better way to do it - Find it!
I know of over 3,000 ways [that] a light bulb does not work.
Incurably religious, that is the best way to describe the mental condition of so many people.
I will not say I failed 1000 times, I will say that I discovered there are 1000 ways that can cause failure
They were not failures, they were new found ways of what does not work "I can accept failure,everyonefails at something. But I can't accept not trying
I did not fail two thousand times. I merely found two thousand ways not to make a lightbulb.
Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! Any other bright-minded fellow can accomplish just as much if he will stick like hell and remember nothing that's any good works by itself. You've got to make the damn thing work!...I failed my way to success.
When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.
A failure teaches you that something can't be done-that way.
I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.