Thomas Edison – Inspiring Quotes from a Legendary Inventor

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. – Thomas Edison

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. – Thomas Edison

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. – 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

The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are: hard work, stick-to-itiveness, and common sense. – 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

What you are will show in what you do. – Thomas Edison

There’s a way to do it better – find it. – Thomas Edison

Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have. – Thomas Edison

Restlessness is discontent, and discontent is the first necessity of progress. – Thomas Edison

I never did a day’s work in my life, it was all fun. – Thomas Edison

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success. – Thomas Edison

The value of an idea lies in using it. – 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

Thomas Edison – Inspiring Quotes from a Legendary Inventor part 2

I start where the last man left off. – Thomas Edison

I’m not a failure. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. – Thomas Edison

Vision without execution is hallucination. – Thomas Edison

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a failure. – Thomas Edison

To have a great idea, have a lot of them. – Thomas Edison

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits. – Thomas Edison

The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease. – Thomas Edison

The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn’t like to do. – Thomas Edison

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won’t work. – Thomas Edison

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world. – Thomas Edison

When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this – you haven’t. – 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. – Thomas Edison

There is no substitute for hard work. – Thomas Edison

The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. – Thomas Edison

Hell, there are no rules here – we’re trying to accomplish something. – Thomas Edison

The best thinking has been done in solitude. – Thomas Edison

The most important invention of the future will be the mind of the individual. – Thomas Edison

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. – Thomas Edison

Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless. – Thomas Edison

There is far more opportunity than there is ability. – Thomas Edison

Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth. – Thomas Edison

My main purpose in life is to make enough money to create ever more inventions. – Thomas Edison

We don’t know a millionth of one percent about anything. – Thomas Edison

The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child. – Thomas Edison

Tomorrow is my exam but I don’t care because a single sheet of paper can’t decide my future. – Thomas Edison

An invention is a crystallization of wisdom, spirit, experience, and happiness. – Thomas Edison

Ideas come from space. – 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

The man who makes a success of an important venture never wails for the crowd. He strikes out for himself. – Thomas Edison

Great ideas originate in the muscles. – Thomas Edison

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits. – Thomas Edison