3 December 2020 Thomas A. Edison Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.
3 December 2020 Thomas A. Edison Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
3 December 2020 Thomas A. Edison Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!
3 December 2020 Thomas A. Edison The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
3 December 2020 Thomas A. Edison Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.
3 December 2020 Thomas A. Edison One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But… I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
3 December 2020 Thomas A. Edison I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
3 December 2020 Thomas A. Edison Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
3 December 2020 Thomas A. Edison The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
3 December 2020 Thomas A. Edison To my mind the old masters are not art their value is in their scarcity.
3 December 2020 Thomas A. Edison I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work.
3 December 2020 Thomas A. Edison Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
3 December 2020 Thomas A. Edison Hell, there are no rules here – we’re trying to accomplish something.
3 December 2020 Thomas A. Edison It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
3 December 2020 Thomas A. Edison The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
3 December 2020 Thomas A. Edison Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won’t work.
3 December 2020 Thomas A. Edison Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
3 December 2020 Thomas A. Edison Anything that won’t sell, I don’t want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
3 December 2020 Thomas A. Edison I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
3 December 2020 Thomas A. Edison I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists – proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.
