Thomas A. Edison Quotes

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

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

I didn’t fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

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

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.

You can’t realize your dreams unless you have one to begin with.

The value of an idea lies in the using of it.

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

Vision without execution is delusion.

Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.

Anything that won’t sell, I don’t want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.

I never did a day’s work in my life. It was all fun.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.