Invention Quotes

I start where the last man left off.

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

Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.

My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

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!

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

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

I try not to invent things that people don't need.

The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child.

I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.

Writing ... is the great invention of the world.

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

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

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.

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

I sat in a garage and invented the future.

I think death is the most wonderful invention of life. It purges the system of these old models that are obsolete.

I would like to ask you, what would you like to be remembered for? You should write it down. It could be an important contribution, whether it is an invention, an innovation or a change that you bring about in society that the nation will remember you for.

When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.