Thomas Edison quotes

Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work. (Thomas Edison)
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas Edison
Success is 90% perspiration and 10% inspiration!
Thomas Edison
I shall make electricity so cheap that only the rich can afford to burn candles.
Thomas Edison
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Thomas Edison
There's a way to do it better - find it.
Thomas Edison
If we all did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.
Thomas Edison
Every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
Thomas Edison
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
Thomas Edison
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
Thomas Edison
I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun. (Thomas Edison)
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Thomas Edison
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas Edison
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
Thomas Edison
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.
Thomas Edison
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
Thomas Edison
Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Edison
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Thomas Edison
Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
Thomas Edison
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.
Thomas Edison
I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill. (Thomas Edison)
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
Thomas Edison
I do not believe in the God of the theologians; but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt.
Thomas Edison
So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake ... Religion is all bunk.
Thomas Edison
To Monsieur Eiffel the Engineer, the brave builder of so gigantic and original a specimen of modern Engineering from one who has the greatest respect and admiration for all Engineers including the Great Engineer the Bon Dieu.
Thomas Edison