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
Tomorrow Is My Exam But I Don’t Care Because A Single Sheet Of Paper Can’t Decide My Future
I've never made a mistake. I've only learned from experience.
From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.
Remember, life is all what you focus on. Learn lessons and keep moving forward towards your goals and dreams... "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
After we had conducted thousands of experiments on a certain project without solving the problem, one of my associates, after we had conducted the crowning experiment and it had proved a failure, expressed discouragement and disgust over our having failed to find out anything. I cheerily assured him that we had learned something. For we had learned for a certainty that the thing couldnt be done that way, and that we would have to try some other way.
Having a vision for what you want is not enough...Vision without execution is hallucination
Never go to sleep without a request to your subconscious.
I never once failed at making a light bulb. I just found out 99 ways not to make one.
My success is due more to my ability to work continuously on one thing without stopping than to any other single quality.
The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
There is no substitute for hard work.
Work while others are wishing.