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Thomas A. Edison [1847-1931] American

Rank: 4
Inventor

Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and the long-lasting, practical electric light bulb.

Work, Failure, Business, Imagination, Intelligence, Life, Motivational, Success, Time, Wisdom, Best, Courage, Death, Faith, Friendship, Funny, Great, Inspirational, Money, Religion, Science, War

Quote	Tags	Rank
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.	Failure, Work	50
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.	Motivational, Time	101
There is no substitute for hard work.	Work	103
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.	Work	104
There's a way to do it better - find it.	Motivational	105
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.	Wisdom	106
If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.	Inspirational	107
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.	Intelligence, Work	108
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.		109
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.	Business	110
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.	Failure, Life, Success	111
The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.	Best	112
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.	Great, Wisdom, Work	113
I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.	Life, Work	114
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.	Friendship	115
I start where the last man left off.		116
Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.	Failure	117
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.	Death, Science, War	118
Religion is all bunk.	Religion	119
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.	Money, Success, Work	120
The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.	Work	121
What you are will show in what you do.	Work	122
Discontent is the first necessity of progress.		123
The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.	Funny	124
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.	Work	125
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.	Time	126
They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.		201
Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.	Business	202
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.	Failure	203
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.	Imagination	204
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.		205
Great ideas originate in the muscles.	Imagination	206
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!	Business, Courage, Faith	207
To have a great idea, have a lot of them.	Imagination	208
I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.		209
Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.		210
Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.		211
It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.		212
Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.		213
When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.		214
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.		215
What a man's mind can create, man's character can control.		216
Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.		217
I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.		218
There is far more opportunity than there is ability.		219
To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.		220
His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.		221
The value of an idea lies in the using of it.		222
The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.		223
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.	Intelligence	224
I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.		225

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