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
We are striking it big in the electric light, better than my vivid imagination first conceived. Where this thing is going to stop Lord only knows.
Success is based on imagination plus ambition and the will to work.
Inspiration can be found in a pile of junk. Sometimes, you can put it together with a good imagination and invent something.
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Before you reject an idea, find at least five good things about it.
To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction.
Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.
Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.
We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.
If we all did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves
What man's mind can create, man's character can control.
If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.
If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves.
Most people don't recognize opportunity when it comes, because it's usually dressed in overalls and looks a lot like work.