Famous Thomas Alva Edison Quotations

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"Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure."
by Thomas Alva Edison
"Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing."
by Thomas Alva Edison
"Everything comes to he who hustles while he waits."
by Thomas Alva Edison
"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."
by Thomas Alva Edison
"Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration."
by Thomas Alva Edison
"Genius is 1 inspiration and 99 perspiration."
by Thomas Alva Edison
"Great ideas originate in the muscles."
by Thomas Alva Edison
"Hell, there are no rules here-- we're trying to accomplish something."
by Thomas Alva Edison
"I am long on ideas, but short on time. I only expect to live only about a hundred years."
by Thomas Alva Edison
"I have not failed. Ive just found 10,000 ways that dont work."
by Thomas Alva Edison
"If we did all the things we were capable of doing, We would literally astound ourselves."
by Thomas Alva Edison
"Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless."
by Thomas Alva Edison
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
by Thomas Alva Edison
"Results Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work."
by Thomas Alva Edison
"Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress."
by Thomas Alva Edison
"There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking."
by Thomas Alva Edison
"We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything."
by Thomas Alva Edison
"When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes."
by Thomas Alva Edison
"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!"
by Thomas Alva Edison
"What man's mind can create, man's character can control."
by Thomas Alva Edison
"Discontent is the first necessity of progress."
by Thomas Alva Edison
"There ain't no rules around here, we're trying to accomplish something."
by Thomas Alva 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. The scope of thrift is limitless."
by Thomas Alva Edison
"I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill."
by Thomas Alva Edison
"The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense."
by Thomas Alva Edison
"Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth."
by Thomas Alva Edison
"There is far more opportunity than there is ability."
by Thomas Alva Edison
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work."
by Thomas Alva Edison
"It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work."
by Thomas Alva Edison
"There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking."
by Thomas Alva Edison
"I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work."
by Thomas Alva Edison
"I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun."
by Thomas Alva Edison


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