Thomas A. Edison Quotes

They say President Wilson has blundered.

Perhaps he has,

but I notice he usually blunders forward.

When I have fully decided that a result

is worth getting I go ahead of it and make,

trial after trial until it comes.

I start where the last man left off.

I am proud of the fact

that I never invented weapons to kill.

I find my greatest pleasure,

and so my reward,

in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

It is astonishing what an effort

it seems to be for many people

to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

I never did anything by accident,

nor did any of my inventions come by accident;

they came by work.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence.

Everything that surrounds us

everything that exists

proves that there are infinite laws behind it.

There can be no denying this fact.

It is mathematical in its precision.

What a man's mind can create,

man's character can control.

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define;

Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes

its reward to the man who loves his work.

But...

I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward,

in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

To my mind the old masters are not art;

their value is in their scarcity.

Maturity is often more absurd than youth and,

very frequently is most unjust to youth.

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.

Results! Why, man,

I have gotten a lot of results.

I know several thousand things that won't work.

The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.

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!

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

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.