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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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Let the public throw bouquets to the inventors and in time we will all be happy.
Thomas A. Edison
Results? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results! If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
Thomas A. Edison
A teacher sent the following note home with a six-year-old boy 'He is too stupid to learn.' That boy was Thomas A. Edison.
Thomas A. Edison
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
Thomas A. Edison
I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Seventy-five of us worked twenty hours every day and slept only four hours - and thrived on it.
Thomas A. Edison
I didn’t fail ten thousand times. I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times, materials and combinations which wouldn’t work.
Thomas A. Edison
The real measure of success is the number of experiments that can be crowded into 24 hours.
Thomas A. Edison
I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work.
Thomas A. Edison
Success depends on how many experiments you can fit into 24 hours
Thomas A. Edison
We haven't failed. We now know a thousand things that won't work, so we are much closer to finding what will.
Thomas A. Edison
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.
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Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! ... I've failed my way to success.
Thomas A. Edison
Invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.
Thomas A. Edison
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge. Remedies from chemicals will never stand in favor compared with the products of nature, the living cell of the plant, the final result of the rays of the sun, the mother of all life.
Thomas A. Edison
People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project (Muscle Shoals Dam) nor contribute a pound of material, will collect more money from the United States than will the People who supply all the material and do all the work. This is the terrible thing about interest.
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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 am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor....'
Thomas A. Edison
I know this world is ruled by Infinite Intelligence. It required Infinite Intelligence to create it and it requires Infinite Intelligence to keep it on its course ... It is mathematical in its precision.
Thomas A. Edison
Great ideas originate in the muscles.
Thomas A. Edison
I have better use for my brain than to poison it with alcohol. To put alcohol in the human brain is like putting sand in the bearings of an engine.
Thomas A. Edison
