Thomas A. Edison Quotes

The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn’t like to do.

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

There is a better way for everything. Find it.

Having a vision for what you want is not enough…Vision without execution is hallucination

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.

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

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

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

Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.

Continued innovation is the best way to beat the competition.

There’s a way to do it better – find it.

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.