461 Quotes by Thomas A. Edison

Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can’t afford to lose.

I have had a lot of success with failure.

M. A. Rosanoff: Mr. Edison, please tell me what laboratory rules you want me to observe. Edison: There ain’t no rules around here. We’re trying to accomplish somep’n!

The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn’t like to do.

A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job.

The stomach is the only part of man which can be fully satisfied. The yearning of man’s brain for new knowledge and experience and for more pleasant and comfortable surroundings never can be completely met. It is an appetite which cannot be appeased.

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will involve the patient in the proper use of food, fresh air and exercise.

When there’s no experimenting there’s no progress. Stop experimenting and you go backward. If anything goes wrong, experiment until you get to the very bottom of the trouble.

The roots of tobacco plants must go clear through to hell. Satan’s principal agent Dyspepsia must have charge of this branch of the vegetable kingdom.