Thomas Edison was an American inventor and businessman who has been described as America’s greatest inventor. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures.
He was known for his intelligence, hardwork and great inventions. Here are some of his quote that will keep you going;
1. “Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.”
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2. “Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won’t work.”
3. “One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But… I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.”
4. “There is far more opportunity than there is ability.”
5. “Anything that won’t sell, I don’t want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.”
6. “When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.”
36. “I start where the last man left off.”
7. “Great ideas originate in the muscles
8. “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”
9. “Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.”
10. “There is no substitute for hard work.”
11. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
12. “If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.”
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13. “What you are will show in what you do.”
14. “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
15. “The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.”
16. “Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.”
17. “Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
18. “I never did a day’s work in my life. It was all fun.”
19. “Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.”
20. “I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.”
21. “Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.”
22. “I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.”
23. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
24. “There’s a way to do it better – find it.”
25. “Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have” .
