Thomas A Edison Quotes



       “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.” 
- Thomas Edison

      “There is time for everything.” 
- Thomas Edison

      “Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” 
- Thomas Edison

      “When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.” 
- Thomas Edison

       “We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work” 
- Thomas Edison

       “If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.” 
- Thomas Edison

       “Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.” 
- Thomas Edison

       “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” 
- Thomas Edison

       “To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.” 
- Thomas Edison

       “This problem, once solved, will be simple.” 
- Thomas Edison

       “There are no rules here -- we're trying to accomplish something.” 
- Thomas Edison

       “The value of an idea lies in using it” 
- Thomas Edison

       “I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.” 
- Thomas Edison

       “Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure”
Thomas Edison


       “Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.” 
- Thomas Edison

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

       “I never did a day's work in my life, it was all fun.” 
- Thomas Edison

        “I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it” 
- Thomas Edison

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

       “There's a way to do it better - find it.” 
- Thomas Edison


       “I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.” 
- Thomas Edison

       “I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.” 
- Thomas Edison

       “It is very beautiful over there. (last words)” 
- Thomas Edison

        “There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the real labour of thinking.” 
- Thomas Edison

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

       “Nature is truly wonderful. Only man is truly foul.” 
- Thomas Edison

        “The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.” 
- Thomas Edison

        “We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.” 
- Thomas Edison

       “If we all did the things we were capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.” 
- Thomas Edison

       “Hell! there ain’t no rules around here! We are trying’ to accomplish somep’n!” 
- Thomas Edison

        “Opportunity is often missed because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.” 
- Thomas Edison

      “He had all the attributes of a perfect man, and, in my opinion, no finer personality ever existed.
- Thomas Edison

        “So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake ... Religion is all bunk.” 
- Thomas Edison

        “I have not failed 1,000 times. I have successfully discovered 1,000 ways to NOT make a light bulb.” 
- Thomas Edison

       “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Thomas A. Edison

       “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas A. Edison


        “I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favour of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison

        “To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Thomas A. Edison


       “Discontent is the first necessity of progress.
Thomas A. Edison


        “I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.
Thomas A. Edison