“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
— Thomas A. Edison
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
“There's a way to do it better - find it.”
“Genius is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration.”
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”
“There is no substitute for hard work.”
“There are no rules here – we’re trying to accomplish something.”
“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.”
“We often miss opportunity because it’s dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
“I never did a day's work in my life, it was all fun.”
“When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this – you haven’t.”
“If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
“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.”
“The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.”
“Tomorrow is my exam but I don’t care because a single sheet of paper can’t decide my future.”
“Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.”
“I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.”
“I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.”
“To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.”
“Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.”
“The value of an idea lies in the using of it.”
“Vision without execution is delusion.”
“The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.”
“I never quit until I get what I want.”
“I didn’t fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.”
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.”
“I failed my way to success.”
“Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can’t afford to lose.”
“Seeming to do is not doing.”
“Never Say I Failed 99 Times, Say I Discovered 99 Ways Which Causes Failure!”
“A man’s best friend is a good wife.”
“The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn’t like to do.”
“Each time you fail, you have eliminated another wrong option.”
“The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will involve the patient in the proper use of food, fresh air and exercise.”
“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.”
“Every failure is a lesson learned about your strategy.”
“To get a great idea, come up with lots of them.”
“Most of my ideas belonged to other people who never bothered to develop them.”
“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.”
“The world owes nothing to any man, but every man owes something to the world.”
“Success depends on how many experiments you can fit into 24 hours.”
“The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.”
“Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.”
“To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction.”
“An idea is something that won’t work unless you do.”
“There is far more opportunity than there is ability.”
“This problem, once solved, will be simple.”
“My success is due more to my ability to work continuously on one thing without stopping than to any other single quality.”
“Genius is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration.”
“Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.”
“First be sure a thing is wanted or needed, then go ahead.”
“Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.”
“There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Thank God we can start a new.”
“We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.”
“I would rather have one man with enthusiasm working with me than ten who are complacent.”
“Never be discouraged, because every wrong turn attempt, when left behind you, is another step forward taking you closer to your goals.”
“Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you’re working on.”
“Focus on how the end-user customers perceive the impact of your innovation – rather than on how you, the innovators, perceive it.”
“The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.”
“I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.”
“Failure is really a matter of conceit. People don’t work hard because, in their conceit, they imagine they’ll succeed without ever making an effort. Most people believe that they’ll wake up some day and find themselves rich. Actually, they’ve got it half right, because eventually they do wake up.”
“I believe in the existence of a Supreme Intelligence pervading the Universe.”
“Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.”
“The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.”
“I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Seventy-five of us worked twenty hours every day and slept only four hours – and thrived on it.”
“No, I haven’t failed thousands of times. On the contrary, I have successfully eliminated thousands of ideas that do not work!”
“Consider data without prejudice.”
“I never once failed at making a light bulb. I just found out 99 ways not to make one.”
“Accomplishing something provides the only real satisfaction in life.”
“Of the 200 light bulbs that didn’t work, every failure told me something that I was able to incorporate into the next attempt.”
“Large portions of life’s disappointments are individuals who did not understand that they were so near achievement when they surrendered.”
“When you become quiet, it just dawns on you.”
“The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.”
“The stomach is the only part of man which can be fully satisfied. The yearning of man’s brain for new knowledge and experience and for more pleasant and comfortable surroundings never can be completely met. It is an appetite which cannot be appeased.”
“I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
“If I could solve all the problems myself, I would.”
“Great ideas originate in the muscles.”
“The perils of overwork are slight compared with the dangers of inactivity.”
“Every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.”
“The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.”
“I am a vegetarian as well as a passionate anti-alcoholic, because I can thus make better use of my brain.”
“I will not say I failed 1000 times, I will say that I discovered there are 1000 ways that can cause failure.”
“The radio craze will die out in time.”
“Life’s most soothing things are a child’s goodnight and sweet music.”
“I do not believe any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States.”
“Anything that won’t sell, I don’t want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.”
“A lawsuit is the suicide of time.”
“I do not believe in the God of the theologians; but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt.”
“When down in the mouth, remember Jonah. He came out all right.”
“My mother was the making of me.”
“I was always afraid of things that worked the first time. Long experience proved that there were great drawbacks found generally before they could be got commercial; but here was something there was no doubt of.”
“Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge. Remedies from chemicals will never stand in favor compared with the products of nature, the living cell of the plant, the final result of the rays of the sun, the mother of all life.”
“To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.”
“There is far more danger in public than in private monopoly, for when Government goes into business it can always shift its losses to the taxpayers. Government never makes ends meetand that is the first requisite of business.”
“Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides and imprison the rays of the sun.”
“I have determined that there is no market for talking pictures.”
“I am so deaf I am debarred from hearing all the time articulation and have to depend on the judgment of others.”
“I think that Ingersoll had all the attributes of a perfect man, and, in my opinion, no finer personality ever existed. Judging from the past, I cannot help thinking that the intention of the Supreme Intelligence that rules the world is to ultimately make such a type of man universal.”
“There is a better way for everything. Find it.”
“The money one gets for selling one’s soul is always spent in deadening one’s conscience, so the net gain at the end of a lifetime is no greater than if the diabolic bargain had not been struck.”
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