Tag: Thomas A. Edison
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I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Thomas A. Edison
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Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won’t work.
Thomas A. Edison
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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
Thomas A. Edison
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Hell, there are no rules here – we’re trying to accomplish something.
Thomas A. Edison
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Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
Thomas A. Edison
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Great ideas originate in the muscles.
Thomas A. Edison
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They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.
Thomas A. Edison
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To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Thomas A. 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 A. Edison
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There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
Thomas A. Edison