“Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.”
Business
“Great ideas originate in the muscles.”
GreatAll Quotes by Thomas A. Edison
“To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.”
Good“The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.”
Best“The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.”
Great“The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.”
Work“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
Work“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“Great ideas originate in the muscles.”
Great“To have a great idea, have a lot of them.”
Great“Religion is all bunk.”
Religion“I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.”
Success“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“There is no substitute for hard work.”
Work“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“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
Work“To my mind the old masters are not art their value is in their scarcity.”
Art“I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.”
Friendship“I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.”
Life“Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.”
Success“Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.”
Failure