Quotes By Thomas Alva Edison

I think work is the world's greatest fun.

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

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

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

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.

I have had a lot of success with failure.

I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.

I've never made a mistake. I've only learned from experience.

Smoking too much makes me nervous. Must lasso my natural tendency to acquire such habits. Holding heavy cigar constantly in my mouth has deformed my upper lip, it has a sort of Havana curl.

First be sure a thing is wanted or needed, then go ahead.

I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.

All bibles are man-made.

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.

Sticking to it is the genius.

I've realized that most of my best ideas have followed a good night's sleep.

Nothing that's good works by itself, you've got to make the damn thing work.

I would rather have one man with enthusiasm working with me than ten who are complacent.

We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present.

A failure teaches you that something can't be done-that way.

I can never pick up a thing without wishing to improve it.