Tag: Thomas Edison

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

Thomas Alva Edison

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!

Thomas Alva 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.

Thomas Alva Edison

I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Seventy-five of us worked twenty hours every day and slept only four hours — and thrived on it.

Thomas Alva Edison

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

Thomas Alva Edison

I never did a day’s work in my life, it was all fun.

Thomas Alva Edison

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

Thomas Alva Edison

Hell! There ain’t no rules around here! We are tryin’ to accomplish somep’n!

Thomas Edison

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

Thomas A. Edison