461 Quotes by Thomas A. Edison

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.

Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides and imprison the rays of the sun.

I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Seventy-five of us worked twenty hours every day and slept only four hours — and thrived on it.

I've realized that most of my best ideas have followed a good night's sleep.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.

We tried some experiments in mind reading which were not very successful. Think mind reading contrary to common sense, wise provision of the Bon Dieu that we cannot read each others minds, twould stop civilization and everybody would take to the woods. In fifty or hundred thousand centuries when mankind have become perfect by evolution then perhaps this sense could be developed with safety to the state.

You can't realize your dreams unless you have one to begin with.

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.