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 have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing....
Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can't afford to lose.
We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present.
The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.
Before you reject an idea, find at least five good things about it.
What you are will show in what you do.
All bibles are man-made.
There's a way to do it better - find it.
Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Every failure is a lesson learned about your strategy.
Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness... Unfortunately, many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing.