Quotes By Thomas Alva Edison
Inventor
Thomas Alva Edison
Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
The great trouble is that the preachers get the children from six to seven years of age and then it is almost impossible to do anything with them.
No, I haven't failed thousands of times. On the contrary, I have successfully eliminated thousands of ideas that do not work!
When there's no experimenting there's no progress. Stop experimenting and you go backward. If anything goes wrong, experiment until you get to the very bottom of the trouble.
A failure teaches you that something can't be done-that way.
We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present.
I would rather have one man with enthusiasm working with me than ten who are complacent.
Nothing that's good works by itself, you've got to make the damn thing work.
I've realized that most of my best ideas have followed a good night's sleep.
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 am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.
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.
I've never made a mistake. I've only learned from experience.
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