461 Quotes by Thomas A. Edison

Sleep is like a drug. Take too much at a time and it makes you dopey. You lose time and opportunities.

I've never made a mistake. I've only learned from experience.

I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident. . . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.

To get a great idea, come up with lots of them.

What a man's mind can create, man's character can control.

From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.

None of my inventions came by accident. I see a worthwhile need to be met and I make trial after trial until it comes. What it boils down to is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you're working on.

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.