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Genius is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration.
Thomas A. Edison
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Thomas A. Edison
Age: 84 †
Born: 1847
Born: February 11
Died: 1931
Died: October 18
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There is much more opportunity than there are people to see it.
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Fooling around with alternating currents is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever. It's too dangerous . . . it could kill a man as quick as a bolt of lightning. Direct current is safe.
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
It is apparent to me that the possibilities of the aeroplane, which two or three years ago were thought to hold the solution to the [flying machine] problem, have been exhausted, and that we must turn elsewhere.
Thomas A. Edison
The real measure of success is the number of experiments that can be crowded into 24 hours.
Thomas A. Edison
I am a vegetarian as well as a passionate anti-alcoholic, because I can thus make better use of my brain.
Thomas A. Edison
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas A. Edison
Consider data without prejudice.
Thomas A. Edison
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor....'
Thomas A. Edison
There cannot be overproduction of anything which men and women want. And their wants are unlimited, except by the size of their stomachs.
Thomas A. Edison
I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.
Thomas A. Edison
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. As a result, a genius is often a talented person who has simply done all of his homework.
Thomas A. Edison
There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
Thomas A. Edison
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
Thomas A. Edison
I think work is the world's greatest fun.
Thomas A. Edison
If I could solve all the problems myself, I would.
Thomas A. Edison
When there's no experimenting there's no progress. Stop experimenting and you go backward. If anything goes wrong, experiment until you get to the very bottom of the trouble.
Thomas A. Edison
I never did a day's work in my life, it was all fun.
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
It is a terrible situation when the Government, to insure the National Wealth, must go in debt and submit to ruinous interest charges, at the hands of men, who control the fictitious value of gold. Interest is the invention of Satan.
Thomas A. Edison
