“I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it”

Thomas A. Edison

“To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.”

Thomas A. Edison

“To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction.”

Thomas A. Edison

“Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.”

Thomas A. Edison

“Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.”

Thomas A. Edison

“The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.”

Thomas A. Edison

“I told [John Kruesi] I was going to record talking, and then have the machine talk back. He thought it absurd. However, it was finished, the foil was put on; I then shouted 'Mary had a little lamb', etc. I adjusted the reproducer, and the machine reproduced it perfectly.

Thomas A. Edison

“When Thomas Edison’s factory burned to the ground in 1914, destroying one-of-a-kind prototypes and causing $23 million in damage, Edison’s response was simple: "Thank goodness all our mistakes were burned up. Now we can start fresh again.”

Thomas A. Edison

“If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”

Thomas A. Edison

“There are no rules here -- we're trying to accomplish something.”

Thomas A. Edison

“Restlessness is discontent — and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man — and I will show you a failure.”

Thomas A. Edison

“I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.”

Thomas A. Edison

“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.” 

Thomas A. Edison

“The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.”

Thomas A. Edison

“So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake ... Religion is all bunk.”

Thomas A. Edison


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