Thomas Edison quotes - page 3

I start where the last man left off. (Thomas Edison)
The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
Thomas Edison
The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
Thomas Edison
Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.
Thomas Edison
Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!
Thomas Edison
What a man's mind can create, man's character can control.
Thomas Edison
Great ideas originate in the muscles.
Thomas Edison
I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
Thomas Edison
The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.
Thomas Edison
His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
Thomas Edison
They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward. (Thomas Edison)
It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
Thomas Edison
The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
Thomas Edison
There is time for everything.
Thomas Edison
The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
Thomas Edison
We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature's inexhaustible sources of energy - sun, wind and tide. ... I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.
Thomas Edison
Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.
Thomas Edison
The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.
Thomas Edison
When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.
Thomas Edison
Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.
Thomas Edison
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever. (Thomas Edison)
To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.
Thomas Edison
What you are will show in what you do.
Thomas Edison
Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
Thomas Edison
Discontent is the first necessity of progress.
Thomas Edison