Thomas Alva Edison quotes

“I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.”

— Thomas Alva Edison

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”

— Thomas Alva Edison

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

— Thomas Alva Edison

“To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.”

— Thomas Alva Edison

“Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.”

— Thomas Alva Edison

“Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction--faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.”

— Thomas Alva Edison

“Hell, there are no rules here-- we're trying to accomplish something.”

— Thomas Alva Edison

“I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident”

— Thomas Alva Edison

“If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”

— Thomas Alva Edison

“Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.”

— Thomas Alva Edison

“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”

— Thomas Alva Edison

“Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.”

— Thomas Alva Edison

“The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.”

— Thomas Alva Edison

“There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.”

— Thomas Alva Edison

“We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.”

— Thomas Alva Edison

“If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.”

— Thomas Alva Edison

“Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.”

— Thomas Alva Edison