461 Quotes by Thomas A. Edison

I never view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn't work.

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

Nothing that's good works by itself, you've got to make the damn thing work.

There is much more opportunity than there are people to see it.

Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! ... I've failed my way to success.

Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.

There is far more danger in public than in private monopoly, for when Government goes into business it can always shift its losses to the taxpayers. Government never makes ends meetand that is the first requisite of business.

A man’s best friend is a good wife.

Be courageous! Have faith! Go forward.