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
I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. No when I have fully decided that a result is worth getting, I go about it, and make trial after trial, until it comes.
The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.
I get my ideas from listening from within.
The First 40 hours of work per week are for survival. Everything after that is for success.
Most of my ideas belonged to other people who never bothered to develop them.
Failure is the most effective technique to optimize strategic planning, implementation and processes.
I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.
No, I haven't failed thousands of times. On the contrary, I have successfully eliminated thousands of ideas that do not work!
Being busy does not always mean real work.
Each time you fail, you have eliminated another wrong option.
I think that Ingersoll had all the attributes of a perfect man, and, in my opinion, no finer personality ever existed. Judging from the past, I cannot help thinking that the intention of the Supreme Intelligence that rules the world is to ultimately make such a type of man universal.
There is always a better way.