I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.
Success depends on how many experiments you can fit into 24 hours
Success is the result of hard work.
I am a vegetarian as well as a passionate anti-alcoholic, because I can thus make better use of my brain.
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction.
Mr. Edison worked endlessly on a problem, using the method of elimination. If a person asked him if he were discouraged because so many attempts proved unavailing, he would say, "No, I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.".
Friendship is the heaven of life.
The beauty of a great idea lies in the art of using it.
They were not failures, they were new found ways of what does not work "I can accept failure,everyonefails at something. But I can't accept not trying
To get a great idea, come up with lots of them.
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.
When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.
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.
The money one gets for selling one's soul is always spent in deadening one's conscience, so the net gain at the end of a lifetime is no greater than if the diabolic bargain had not been struck.
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.
I am 67, but I'm not too old to make a fresh start.
The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
My mother was the making of me. She was so true and so sure of me, I felt that I had someone to live for - someone I must not disappoint. The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
Being busy does not always mean real work.
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.
We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present.
I remember that I was never able to get along at school. I was at the foot of the class.
A failure teaches you that something can't be done-that way.
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