Top 48 Best Edison Quotes
#2. I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe even Newton.
David Antin
#3. There cannot be overproduction of anything which men and women want. And their wants are unlimited, except by the size of their stomachs.
Thomas A. Edison
#5. I would rather have one man with enthusiasm working with me than ten who are complacent.
Thomas A. Edison
#6. The greatest Electrical Pioneer of them all was Thomas Edison Edison's first major invention, in 1877, was the phonograph, which could soon be found in thousands of American homes, where it basically sat until 1923, when the record was invented.
Dave Barry
#7. I don't like Thomas Edison. I'm a fan of Nicolai Tesla.
David Lynch
#8. The greatest discoveries will be along spiritual lines. This is the field where miracles are going to happen. Spiritual power is the greatest underdeveloped power and has the greatest future.
Thomas A. Edison
#9. I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.
Thomas A. Edison
#10. I'm one of those people that think Thomas Edison and the light bulb changed the world more than Karl Marx ever did.
Steve Jobs
#11. I am a vegetarian as well as a passionate anti-alcoholic, because I can thus make better use of my brain.
Thomas A. Edison
#14. The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
Thomas A. Edison
#15. Imagine if Steve Jobs or Thomas Edison or Albert Einstein were all alive 10, 20, 30 years before we know them to be alive; it would have advanced the world that much sooner.
Marc Guggenheim
#16. Incurably religious, that is the best way to describe the mental condition of so many people.
Thomas A. Edison
#17. 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.
Thomas A. Edison
#18. It is the best book ever written on the subject. There is nothing like it!
Thomas A. Edison
#20. I've realized that most of my best ideas have followed a good night's sleep.
Thomas A. Edison
#21. Continued innovation is the best way to beat the competition.
Thomas A. Edison
#23. 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.
Thomas A. Edison
#24. Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!
Thomas A. Edison
#25. I have been at work for some time building an apparatus to see if it is possible for personalities which have left this earth to communicate with us.
Thomas A. Edison
#26. I am much less interested in what is called God's word than in God's deeds. All bibles are man-made.
Thomas A. Edison
#27. They laughed at Edison and Einstein, but somehow I still feel uncomfortable when they laugh at me.
Ashleigh Brilliant
#28. Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.
Thomas A. Edison
#29. There was no lightbulb moment in the story of the lightbulb. By the time Edison flipped the switch at the Pearl Street station, a handful of other firms were already selling their own models of incandescent electric lamps.
Steven Johnson
#31. It is necessary to take an active part in politics to observe how often the welfare of the party organization is put before the issues, even before the welfare of the commonwealth.
Charles Edison
#32. There seems to be no limit to which some men will go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thinking is hard work.
Thomas A. Edison
#33. If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as, 'Candle-making industry threatened'.
Newt Gingrich
#34. I also know that Edison believed the moment between being awake and being asleep was a veil, and it was in that moment that we were most connected to our higher selves.
Jodi Picoult
#36. Smoking too much makes me nervous. Must lasso my natural tendency to acquire such habits. Holding heavy cigar constantly in my mouth has deformed my upper lip, it has a sort of Havana curl.
Thomas A. Edison
#40. The man who doesn't make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasure in life.
Thomas A. Edison
#41. My principal professional objective is to introduce intelligence as the ubiquitous utility. I'd like to be the Thomas Edison of intelligence.
Michael J. Saylor
#44. We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.
Thomas A. Edison
#45. It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
Thomas A. Edison
#46. Einstein is loved because he is gentle, respected because he is wise. Relativity being not for most of us, we elevate its author to a position somewhere between Edison, who gave us a tangible gleam, and God, who gave us the difficult dark and the hope of penetrating it.
E.B. White
#47. Before you reject an idea, find at least five good things about it.
Thomas A. Edison
#48. An average American loves his family. If he has any love left over for some other person, he generally selects Mark Twain.
Thomas A. Edison
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