10 Famous Quotes by Thomas A. Edison

Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph and the long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. Dubbed "The Wizard of Menlo Park" by a newspaper reporter, he was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production and large teamwork to the process of invention, and therefore is often credited with the creation of the first industrial research laboratory. [source: wikipedia]

10 Famous Quotes by Thomas A. Edison

1. Being busy does NOT always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and HONEST PURPOSE, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is NOT doing.
   
   
2. I have NOT failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
   
   
3. If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally ASTOUND ourselves.
   
   
4. 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.
   
   
5. What you ARE will show in WHAT you do.
   
   
6. I never did a day's work in my life. It was ALL fun.
   
   
7. Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
   
   
8. Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the GOAL of ALL evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, WE ARE STILL savages.
   
   
9. The BEST thinking has been done in solitude. The WORST has been done in turmoil.
   
   
10. It is astonishing what AN EFFORT it seems to be for MANY people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
    

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Your worth consists in what YOU ARE and NOT in what you have.

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