“Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.”
Failure
“I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.”
SuccessAll Quotes by Thomas A. Edison
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”
Motivational“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“I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.”
Life“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“Religion is all bunk.”
Religion“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
Work“To have a great idea, have a lot of them.”
Great“I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work.”
Work“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“Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.”
Success“To my mind the old masters are not art their value is in their scarcity.”
Art“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
Work“Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.”
Business“Great ideas originate in the muscles.”
Great“I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.”
Friendship“It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.”
Work“I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.”
Success“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“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