Quotes from Thomas A. Edison

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.

Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.

Many of life's failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

There is time for everything.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.

A man's best friend is a good wife.

What a man's mind can create, man's character can control.

The man who doesn't make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasure in life.

I start where the last man left off. What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of a man can achieve.

Results? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results! If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.

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

I would rather have one man with enthusiasm working with me than ten who are complacent.

The world owes nothing to any man, but every man owes something to the world.

Nature is truly wonderful. Only man is truly foul.

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

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

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.

To my mind the old masters are not art their value is in their scarcity.

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.

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.