When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work. Thomas A. Edison More Quotes by Thomas A. Edison More Quotes From Thomas A. Edison A man’s best friend is a good wife. Thomas A. Edison wife inspirational men Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure. Thomas A. Edison failure educational success Do the thing and the power will come. Thomas A. Edison Work while others are wishing. Thomas A. Edison stay-positive work motivational A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another. Thomas A. Edison mind motivational ideas Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success. Thomas A. Edison business positive inspirational I am more of a sponge than an inventor. I absorb ideas from every source. I take half-matured schemes for mechanical development and make them practical. I am a sort of a middleman between the long-haired and impractical inventor and the hard-headed business man who measures all things in terms of dollars and cents. My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant but misdirected ideas of others. Thomas A. Edison men long ideas The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work. Thomas A. Edison hard-work success opportunity The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child. Thomas A. Edison innovation imagination children I've realized that most of my best ideas have followed a good night's sleep. Thomas A. Edison good-night sleep night During all those years of experimentation and research, I never once made a discovery. All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved were those of invention, pure and simple. I would construct a theory and work on its lines until I found it was untenable. Then it would be discarded at once and another theory evolved. This was the only possible way for me to work out the problem. Thomas A. Edison simple discovery years Being busy does not always mean real work. Thomas A. Edison infinite-intelligence real mean There is much more opportunity than there are people to see it. Thomas A. Edison opportunity people The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around. Thomas A. Edison body mind brain They were not failures, they were new found ways of what does not work Thomas A. Edison doe trying way 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. Thomas A. Edison government business loss To get a great idea, come up with lots of them. Thomas A. Edison creativity play ideas We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles. Thomas A. Edison electricity rich inspirational The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary. Thomas A. Edison focus energy success We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything. Thomas A. Edison ignorance drinking knowledge
