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
There ain't no rules around here, we're trying to accomplish something.
Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent
Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. that's not the place to become discouraged.
A little twist to the usual, "Everything comes to he who waits". Everythingcomes to him who hustles while he waits.
Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.
We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present.
Every failure is a lesson learned about your strategy.
Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! Any other bright-minded fellow can accomplish just as much if he will stick like hell and remember nothing that's any good works by itself. You've got to make the damn thing work!...I failed my way to success.
Be courageous! Have faith! Go forward.
To have a great idea, have a lot of them.
Seeming to do is not doing.
I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Seventy-five of us worked twenty hours every day and slept only four hours — and thrived on it.
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.
Let the public throw bouquets to the inventors and in time we will all be happy.