Quotes By Thomas Alva Edison

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

Absorb ideas from every source.

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

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 time for everything.

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 always a better way.

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

Education isn't play--and it can't be made to look like play. It is hard, hard work. But it can be made interesting work.

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

The strength of the Constitution, lies in the will of the people to defend it.

To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction.

Sleep is like a drug. Take too much at a time and it makes you dopey. You lose time and opportunities.

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.

My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.

Success is the result of hard work.

I failed my way to success.

Everyone steals in commerce and industry. I've stolen a lot, myself. But I know how to steal! They don't know how to steal!

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

From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.