“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
“Religion is all bunk.”
ReligionAll Quotes by Thomas A. Edison
“I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.”
Success“There is no substitute for hard work.”
Work“Religion is all bunk.”
Religion“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
Work“The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.”
Work“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
Work“Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.”
Success“Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.”
Business“Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.”
Business“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“Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.”
Failure“Great ideas originate in the muscles.”
Great“The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.”
Great“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“To have a great idea, have a lot of them.”
Great“To my mind the old masters are not art their value is in their scarcity.”
Art“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“I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.”
Friendship“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
Failure