Thomas A. Edison
Thomas A. Edison
Thomas Alva Edisonwas an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and the long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. Dubbed "The Wizard of Menlo Park", he was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production and large-scale teamwork to the process of invention, and because of that, he is often credited with the creation of the first industrial research laboratory...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionInventor
Date of Birth11 February 1847
CountryUnited States of America
Thomas A. Edison quotes about
When down in the mouth, remember Jonah. He came out all right.
The Bible of nature is the best damn Bible in the world. Its laws are perfect and grand, and all the prayers in the world can't change them. There is intelligence and law in this world, and there may be supreme intelligence and law, but so far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is all a damned fake.
Interest is the invention of Satan.
Nothing that's good works by itself, you've got to make the damn thing work.
Continued innovation is the best way to beat the competition.
Education isn't play--and it can't be made to look like play. It is hard, hard work. But it can be made interesting work.
A good intention, with a bad approach, often leads to a poor result.
I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident. . . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.
No Such Thing as Bad Results
As Danand Ian over at the Lifestyle Business Podcast say: Rush to failure.
I am so deaf I am debarred from hearing all the time articulation and have to depend on the judgment of others.
The endeavor to change universal power by selfish supplication I do not believe in.
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention. It's their 'ideas' that appeal to me. I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor