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Ability
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The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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Action(s)
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What you are will show in what you do.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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Bravery
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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!
-Thomas Alva Edison
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Control
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What man's mind can create, man's character can control.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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Discontent
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Discontent is the first necessity of progress.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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Effort
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There ain't no rules around here, we're trying to accomplish something.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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Excellence
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I start where the last man left off.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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There's a way to do better... find it.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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Excess
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Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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Failure
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Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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Genius
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His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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Ideas
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The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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To have a great idea, have a lot of them.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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Great ideas originate in the muscles.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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Inventing, Inventions
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I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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Knowledge
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We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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Life
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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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Mankind, Man
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The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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Maturity
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Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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Mind, the
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The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around
-Thomas Alva Edison
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Miracles
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I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists -- proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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Opportunity
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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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Patience
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Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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Persistence
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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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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.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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Pleasure
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I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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Potential
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If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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Progress
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Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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Results
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Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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Rules
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Hell, there are no rules here, we are trying to accomplish something.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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Satisfaction
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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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Solitude
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The best thinking has been done in solitude.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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Success & Failure
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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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I have not failed. I
-Thomas Alva Edison
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Thought
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There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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Value
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To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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Work
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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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There is no substitute for hard work.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
-Thomas Alva Edison, One of the many proverbs/sayings written by Thomas Edison.
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Worry
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As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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Worth
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Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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Books by and about Thomas Alva Edison
