Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
Thomas A. Edison
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Thomas A. Edison
Age: 84 †
Born: 1847
Born: February 11
Died: 1931
Died: October 18
Businessperson
Engineer
Entrepreneur
Film Director
Inventor
Lighting Designer
Mathematician
Physicist
Screenwriter
Milan
Ohio
Thomas A. Edison
Thomas Edison
Edison Thomas Alva
Money
Make
Inventions
Life
Afford
Invention
Main
Creating
Motivational
Purpose
More quotes by Thomas A. Edison
Consider data without prejudice.
Thomas A. Edison
This problem, once solved, will be simple.
Thomas A. Edison
Seeming to do is not doing.
Thomas A. Edison
The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
Thomas A. Edison
The money one gets for selling one's soul is always spent in deadening one's conscience, so the net gain at the end of a lifetime is no greater than if the diabolic bargain had not been struck.
Thomas A. Edison
Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best
Thomas A. Edison
I remember that I was never able to get along at school. I was at the foot of the class.
Thomas A. Edison
The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization.... Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation
Thomas A. Edison
The strength of the Constitution, lies in the will of the people to defend it.
Thomas A. Edison
I believe in the existence of a Supreme Intelligence pervading the Universe.
Thomas A. Edison
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.
Thomas A. Edison
The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.
Thomas A. Edison
I was at the foot of my class.
Thomas A. Edison
My success is due more to my ability to work continuously on one thing without stopping than to any other single quality.
Thomas A. Edison
I will not say I failed 1000 times, I will say that I discovered there are 1000 ways that can cause failure
Thomas A. Edison
I never did a day's work in my life, it was all fun.
Thomas A. Edison
So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake ... Religion is all bunk.
Thomas A. Edison
The beauty of a great idea lies in the art of using it.
Thomas A. Edison
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison
A man’s best friend is a good wife.
Thomas A. Edison
