Quotes By Thomas Alva Edison

We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.

Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.

I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whisky.

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

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

I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Relentlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.

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

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

I start where the last man left off.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.