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
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.
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.
I never did anything worth doing by accident; nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work
Oh these mathematicians make me tired! When you ask them to work out a sum they take a piece of paper, cover it with rows of A's, B's, and X's and Y's ... scatter a mess of flyspecks over them, and then give you an answer that's all wrong!
There is no subsitute for hard work.
Nothing that's good works by itself, you've got to make the damn thing work.
I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident. . . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.
Failure is really a matter of conceit. People don't work hard because, in their conceit, they imagine they'll succeed without ever making an effort. Most people believe that they'll wake up some day and find themselves rich. Actually, they've got it half right, because eventually they do wake up.
Genius is not inspired. Inspiration is perspiration.
If I could solve all the problems myself, I would.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
Great ideas originate in the muscles.
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.