Phrases

-I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.

-Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

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

-A genius is a talented person who does his homework.

-There is a better way for everything. Find it.

-Having a vision for what you want is not enough…Vision without execution is hallucination

-Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

-The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus.

-Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.

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

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

-The man who doesn’t make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasure in life.

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

-Success is the product of the severest kind of mental and physical application.

-There is no limit to which a man will not go to avoid thinking.

-Each time you fail, you have eliminated another wrong option.

-Success is 90% perspiration and 10% inspiration!

-The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.

-Vision without execution is delusion.

-The secret of success is focus of purpose.

-The First 40 hours of work per week are for survival. Everything after that is for success.

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

-A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.

-Accomplishing something provides the only real satisfaction in life.

-Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward.

-Continued innovation is the best way to beat the competition.

-Never go to sleep
without a request to your subconscious.

-The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child.

-Remember, life is all what you focus on. Learn lessons and keep moving forward towards your goals and dreams… “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”

-When we learn how to store electricity, we will cease being apes ourselves; until then we are tailless orangutans. You see, we should utilize natural forces and thus get all of our power. Sunshine is a form of energy, and the winds and the tides are manifestations of energy. Do we use them? Oh, no! We burn up wood and coal, as renters burn up the front fence for fuel. We live like squatters, not as if we owned the property.

-My success is due more to my ability to work continuously on one thing without stopping than to any other single quality.

-Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

-The perils of overwork are slight compared with the dangers of inactivity.

-The world owes nothing to any man, but every man owes something to the world.

-Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.

-I never quit until I get what I want.

-Be courageous! Have faith! Go forward.

-The brain can be developed just the same as the muscles
can be developed, if on will only take the pains to train
the mind to think.

-Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

-Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.

-When you become quiet, it just dawns on you

-I get my ideas from listening from within.

-The money one gets for selling one’s soul is always spent in deadening one’s conscience, so the net gain at the end of a lifetime is no greater than if the diabolic bargain had not been struck.

-We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.

-Tomorrow Is My Exam But I Don’t Care Because A Single Sheet Of Paper Can’t Decide My Future

-Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we’re just trying to accomplish something.

-Everything comes to those who hustle while they wait.

-Education isn’t play–and it can’t be made to look like play. It is hard, hard work. But it can be made interesting work.

-I didn’t fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.

-I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists – proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.

-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.

-I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.

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

People are not remembered by how few times they fail, but by how often they succeed. Every wrong step is another step forward

-The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind of a child is naturally active, it develops through exercise. Give a child plenty of exercise, for body and brain. The trouble with our way of educating is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a mold. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning, and it lays more stress on memory than observation.

-Work while others are wishing.

-We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries – discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines .

-Most people is that they quit before they start.

-The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.

-The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

-Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.

There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Thank God we can start a new.

-When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this – you haven’t.

-Success is based on imagination plus ambition and the will to work.

-I do not believe in the God of the theologians; but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt.

-In creating technology for ourselves we created it for the world.

Before you reject an idea, find at least five good things about it.
Thomas A. Edison

As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.

-Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.

-I have better use for my brain than to poison it with alcohol. To put alcohol in the human brain is like putting sand in the bearings of an engine.

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

-Failure is the most effective technique to optimize strategic planning, implementation and processes.

-There is no substitute for hard work.

-Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

-Everyone steals in commerce and industry. I’ve stolen a lot, myself. But I know how to steal! They don’t know how to steal!

-Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.

-Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence…. Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.

-Never be discouraged, because every wrong turn attempt, when left behind you, is another step forward taking you closer to your goals.

-I am much less interested in what is called God’s word than in God’s deeds. All bibles are man-made.

-I would rather have one man with enthusiasm working with me than ten who are complacent.

-I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

-Most of my ideas belonged to other people who never bothered to develop them.

-What you are will show in what you do.

-The very first thing an executive must have is a fine memory. Of course it does not follow that a man with a fine memory is necessarily a fine executive. But if he has the memory he has the first qualification, and if he has not the memory nothing else matters.

-Every failure is a lesson learned about your strategy.

-The beauty of a great idea lies in the art of using it.

-There is time for everything.

-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.

-Do the thing and the power will come.

-The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.

-A man’s best friend is a good wife.

-The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.

-The radio craze will die out in time.

-We don’t know a millionth of one percent about anything.

-The strength of the Constitution, lies in the will of the people to defend it.

-Today, I am wondering what would have happened to me by now, if, fifty years ago, some fluent talker had converted me to the theory of the eight-hour day and convinced me that it was not fair to my fellow-workers to put forth my best efforts in my work? I am glad that the eight-hour day had not been invented when I was a young man. If my life had been made up of eight-hour days, I don’t believe I could have accomplished a great deal.

-Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

-I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing.

-I am 67, but I’m not too old to make a fresh start.

-A good intention, with a bad approach, often leads to a poor result.

-If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

-What is a college? An institute of learning. What is a business? An institute of learning. Life, itself, is an institute of learning.

-Sticking to it is the genius.

-Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.

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

-Never Say I Failed 99 Times, Say I Discovered 99 Ways Which Causes Failure!

-Mr. Edison worked endlessly on a problem, using the method of elimination. If a person asked him if he were discouraged because so many attempts proved unavailing, he would say, “No, I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.”.

-Success depends on how many experiments you can fit into 24 hours

-I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.

-I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it

-To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction.

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

-The doctor of the future will give no medication, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet and in the cause and prevention of disease. ~

-My mother was the making of me. She was so true and so sure of me, I felt that I had someone to live for – someone I must not disappoint. The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.

-There seems to be no limit to which some men will go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thinking is hard work.

-Failure is really a matter of conceit. People don’t work hard because, in their conceit, they imagine they’ll succeed without ever making an effort. Most people believe that they’ll wake up some day and find themselves rich. Actually, they’ve got it half right, because eventually they do wake up.

-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.

-The great trouble is that the preachers get the children from six to seven years of age and then it is almost impossible to do anything with them.

-I remember that I was never able to get along at school. I was at the foot of the class.

-There cannot be overproduction of anything which men and women want. And their wants are unlimited, except by the size of their stomachs.

-Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.

-A teacher sent the following note home with a six-year-old boy ‘He is too stupid to learn.’ That boy was Thomas A. Edison.

-I failed my way to success.

-Somewhere between the ages of eleven and fifteen, the average child begins to suffer from an atrophy, the paralysis of curiosity and the suspension of the power to observe. The trouble, I should judge, to lie with the schools.

-I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others… I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.