Quotes by Thomas Alva Edison

Thomas Alva Edison

Thomas Alva Edison

American inventor and founder of General Electric

Lived from: 1847 - 1931

Category: Business and entrepreneurs | Scientists Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 11 february 1847 Died: 18 october 1931

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  • Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
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  • Religion is all bunk.
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  • Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
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  • Result! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
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  • Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
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  • Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
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  • The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
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  • The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.
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  • The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
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  • There ain't no rules around here, we're trying to accomplish something.
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  • There are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
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  • There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
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  • There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.
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  • There's a way to do better... find it.
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  • There's a way to do it better - find it.
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  • To have a great idea, have a lot of them.
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  • To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.
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  • We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.
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  • What you are will show in what you do.
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  • When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.
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