Top 200 Thomas A. Edison Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”

— Thomas A. Edison

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2. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”

— Thomas A. Edison

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3. “There's a way to do it better - find it.”

— Thomas A. Edison

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4. “Genius is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration.”

— Thomas A. Edison

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

— Thomas A. Edison

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6. “There is no substitute for hard work.”

— Thomas A. Edison

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7. “When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this – you haven’t.”

— Thomas A. Edison

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8. “We often miss opportunity because it’s dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

— Thomas A. Edison

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9. “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

10. “There are no rules here – we’re trying to accomplish something.”

— Thomas A. Edison

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11. “I never did a day's work in my life, it was all fun.”

— Thomas A. Edison

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12. “Tomorrow is my exam but I don’t care because a single sheet of paper can’t decide my future.”

— Thomas A. Edison

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

— Thomas A. Edison

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14. “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

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

— Thomas A. Edison

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16. “Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.”

— Thomas A. Edison

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17. “Vision without execution is delusion.”

— Thomas A. Edison

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18. “The value of an idea lies in the using of it.”

— Thomas A. Edison

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

— Thomas A. Edison

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20. “I never quit until I get what I want.”

— Thomas A. Edison

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

— Thomas A. Edison

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

— Thomas A. Edison

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

— Thomas A. Edison

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24. “The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.”

— Thomas A. Edison

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25. “I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.”

— Thomas A. Edison

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26. “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.”

— Thomas A. Edison

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27. “Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can’t afford to lose.”

— Thomas A. Edison

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28. “I failed my way to success.”

— Thomas A. Edison

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

— Thomas A. Edison

30. “The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will involve the patient in the proper use of food, fresh air and exercise.”

— Thomas A. Edison

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31. “Each time you fail, you have eliminated another wrong option.”

— Thomas A. Edison

32. “Every failure is a lesson learned about your strategy.”

— Thomas A. Edison

33. “Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.”

— Thomas A. Edison

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34. “Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. As a result, a genius is often a talented person who has simply done all of his homework.”

— Thomas A. Edison

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35. “A man’s best friend is a good wife.”

— Thomas A. Edison

36. “Never say ‘I failed 99 times’, say ‘I discovered 99 ways that cause failure!’”

— Thomas A. Edison

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37. “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.”

— Thomas A. Edison

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38. “I never once failed at making a light bulb. I just found out 99 ways not to make one.”

— Thomas A. Edison

39. “Genius is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration.”

— Thomas A. Edison

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40. “Success depends on how many experiments you can fit into 24 hours.”

— Thomas A. Edison

41. “Seeming to do is not doing.”

— Thomas A. Edison

42. “This problem, once solved, will be simple.”

— Thomas A. Edison

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43. “An idea is something that won’t work unless you do.”

— Thomas A. Edison

44. “Success is the result of hard work.”

— Thomas A. Edison

45. “To get a great idea, come up with lots of them.”

— Thomas A. Edison

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46. “Most of my ideas belonged to other people who never bothered to develop them.”

— Thomas A. Edison

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

— Thomas A. Edison

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48. “The world owes nothing to any man, but every man owes something to the world.”

— Thomas A. Edison

49. “There is a better way for everything. Find it.”

— Thomas A. Edison

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50. “My success is due more to my ability to work continuously on one thing without stopping than to any other single quality.”

— Thomas A. Edison

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