Insightful Quotes by Thomas Edison

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

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

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

I find out what the world needs. Then, I go ahead and try to invent it. – Thomas Edison

Discontent is the first necessity of progress. – Thomas Edison

I haven’t failed. I’ve just found another way that won’t work. – Thomas Edison

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

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

The value of an idea lies in the using of it. – Thomas Edison

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited. – Thomas Edison

Insightful Quotes by Thomas Edison part 2

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

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

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

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. – Thomas Edison

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

If we all did the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves. – Thomas Edison

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

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. – Thomas Edison

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

Vision without execution is hallucination. – Thomas Edison

The greatest ideas are the simplest. – Thomas Edison

If the nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. – 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

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

A good intention, with a bad approach, often leads to a poor result. – Thomas Edison

There are no rules here – we’re trying to accomplish something. – Thomas Edison

I have no money and no way of getting any. That’s why I’ve got to innovate. – Thomas Edison

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

The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around. – Thomas Edison

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

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

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

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. – Thomas Edison

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. No, when I have fully decided that a result is worth getting, I go about it and make trial after trial until it comes. – Thomas Edison

There is no substitute for hard work. – Thomas Edison

Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can’t afford to lose. – Thomas Edison

Genius is eternal patience. – Thomas Edison

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