Quotes By Thomas Alva Edison

I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.

There is always a better way.

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.

There is time for everything.

I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing.

There is no limit to which a man will not go to avoid thinking.

Absorb ideas from every source.

The biggest failure of man is that he gives up before he realizes how close he was to success.

I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.

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

I believe in the existence of a Supreme Intelligence pervading the Universe.

A man's best friend is a good wife.

Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.

What you are will show in what you do.

The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.

I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.

I do not believe in the God of the theologians; but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt.

The greatest discoveries will be along spiritual lines. This is the field where miracles are going to happen. Spiritualpower is the greatest underdeveloped power and has the greatest future.

What is a college? An institute of learning. What is a business? An institute of learning. Life, itself, is an institute of learning.

Everything comes to those who hustle while they wait.