Thomas Edison Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

Here is a collation of Thomas Edison quotes and sayings. What did Thomas Alva Edison, an American inventor and businessman most famous for inventing the electric light bulb, have to say?

“A genius is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.”
– Thomas Edison

“A man’s best friend is a good wife.”
– Thomas Edison

“All bibles are man-made.”
– Thomas Edison

“An artist’s duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.”
– Thomas Edison

“And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character.”
– Thomas Edison

“Anything that won’t sell, I don’t want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.”
– Thomas Edison

“As a cure for worrying, work is better than whisky.”
– Thomas Edison

“As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.”
– Thomas Edison

“Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence…. Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.”
– Thomas Edison

“Be courageous! Have faith! Go Forward!”
– Thomas Edison

“Be courageous! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation…. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward!”
– Thomas Edison

“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!”
– Thomas Edison

“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.”
– Thomas Edison

“By all means let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.”
– Thomas Edison

“By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around traveling, I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested.”
– Thomas Edison

“Christoph Waltz is stunning, an insanely nice guy. He is not only a ridiculously good actor, he is also really funny, helpful, and a good colleague. I like his work ethic. I mean, the guy has won an Oscar and despite that he is receptive, open-minded, and not the least bit snooty. And Reese Witherspoon is the same. It may be the nicest cast that I have worked with yet, a really great experience.”
– Thomas Edison

“Crowds here are very open-minded in terms of music they listen to. In America you sometimes feel like they’re just there to say they went to that show, just because you fit the same scene as some other band.”
– Thomas Edison

“Discontent is the first necessity of progress.”
– Thomas Edison

“During all those years of experimentation and research, I never once made a discovery. All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved were those of invention, pure and simple. I would construct a theory and work on its lines until I found it was untenable. Then it would be discarded at once and another theory evolved. This was the only possible way for me to work out the problem. … I speak without exaggeration when I say that I have constructed 3,000 different theories in connection with the electric light, each one of them reasonable and apparently likely to be true. Yet only in two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory. My chief difficulty was in constructing the carbon filament. . . . Every quarter of the globe was ransacked by my agents, and all sorts of the queerest materials used, until finally the shred of bamboo, now utilized by us, was settled upon.”
– Thomas Edison

“Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises that the listeners do not perceive.”
– Thomas 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 Edison

“Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.”
– Thomas Edison

“Failure is really a matter of conceit. People don’t work hard because, in their conceit, they imagine they’ll succeed without ever making an effort. Most people believe that they’ll wake up some day and find themselves rich. Actually, they’ve got it half right, because eventually they do wake up.”
– Thomas Edison

“Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction–faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.”
– Thomas Edison

“Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think;
and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.”
– Thomas Edison

“Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.”
– Thomas Edison

“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.”
– Thomas Edison

“Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a ‘genius’ is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.”
– Thomas Edison

“Great ideas originate in the muscles.”
– Thomas Edison

“Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think ‘cubist’ songs and paintings are hideous.”
– Thomas Edison

“Hell, there are no rules here – we’re trying to accomplish something.”
– Thomas Edison

“His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.”
– Thomas Edison

“I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.”
– Thomas Edison

“I am more of a sponge than an inventor. I absorb ideas from every source. I take half-matured schemes for mechanical development and make them practical. I am a sort of a middleman between the long-haired and impractical inventor and the hard-headed business man who measures all things in terms of dollars and cents. My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant but misdirected ideas of others.”
– Thomas Edison

“I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.”
– Thomas Edison

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