"The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary."

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

"If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves."

"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."

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

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

"We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work"

"Five percent of the people think"

"The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense."

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

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

"When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't."

"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."

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

"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk."

"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."

"There are no rules here -- we're trying to accomplish something."

"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. ~"

"Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless."

"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."

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

"I never did a day's work in my life, it was all fun."

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

"We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature’s inexhaustible sources of energy--sun, wind and tide. I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don’t have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that."

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

"Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability.... We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation."

"Nature is what we know. We do not know the gods of religions. And nature is not kind, or merciful, or loving. If God made me — the fabled God of the three qualities of which I spoke: mercy, kindness, love — He also made the fish I catch and eat. And where do His mercy, kindness, and love for that fish come in? No; nature made us — nature did it all — not the gods of the religions"

"Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits."

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

"There's a way to do it better - find it."

"I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work."

"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"

"I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill."

"Nearly every person who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged."

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

"All bibles are man-made."

"There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the real labor of thinking."

"People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project nor contribute a pound of material, will collect more money from the United States than will the People who supply all the material and do all the work. This is the terrible thing about interest ...But here is the point: If the Nation can issue a dollar bond it can issue a dollar bill. The element that makes the bond good makes the bill good also. The difference between the bond and the bill is that the bond lets the money broker collect twice the amount of the bond and an additional 20%. Whereas the currency, the honest sort provided by the Constitution pays nobody but those who contribute in some useful way. It is absurd to say our Country can issue bonds and cannot issue currency. Both are promises to pay, but one fattens the usurer and the other helps the People. If the currency issued by the People were no good, then the bonds would be no good, either. It is a terrible situation when the Government, to insure the National Wealth, must go in debt and submit to ruinous interest charges at the hands of men who control the fictitious value of gold."

"Nature is truly wonderful. Only man is truly foul."

"Opportunity is often missed because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work."

"I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward."

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

"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."

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

"It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work."

"banyak orang yang gagal adalah orang yang tidak menyadari betapa dekatnya mereka dengan kesuksesan saat mereka menyerah"

"I will not say that I failed a 1000 times but that I found 1000 ways to fail."

"So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake ... Religion is all bunk."

"It's very beautiful over there."

"I have never failed, I've only shown the way I did it before doesn't work."

"I haven't failed,I have just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

"I told [John Kruesi] I was going to record talking, and then have the machine talk back. He thought it absurd. However, it was finished, the foil was put on; I then shouted 'Mary had a little lamb', etc. I adjusted the reproducer, and the machine reproduced it perfectly"

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

"There is no substitute for hard work"

"As Edison is credited with saying, "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." We all want to be successful, but most of us aren't willing to do what those who are successful did to attain it. We want success without sacrifice, but you can't have one without the other!"

"Happiness is only for the honest-that’s a law that runs through matter as undetectable as gravity"

"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 someday and find themselves rich. Actually, they’ve got it half right, because eventually, they do wake up."

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

"Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose."

"Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That’s not the place to become discouraged."

"We don’t know a millionth of 1% about anything."

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

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

"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."

"Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless."

"Success is the result of hard work."

"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 so is not doing."

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

"I am not discouraged because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward."

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

"Never get discouraged if you fail. Learn from it. Keep trying."

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

"Great ideas originate in the muscles."

"There is no substitute for hard work."

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

"There’s a way to do it better—find it."

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

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

"A genius is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework."

"We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation."

"The value of an idea lies in the using of it."

"Two percent is genius and ninety-eight percent is hard work."

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

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

"I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred."

"Hell, there are no rules here. We’re trying to accomplish something."

"Not everything of value in life comes from books—experience the world."

"Nature is what we know. We do not know the gods of religions. And nature is not kind, or merciful, or loving. If God made me—the fabled God of the three qualities of which I spoke—mercy, kindness, love. He also made the fish I catch and eat. And where do His mercy, kindness, and love for that fish come in? No. Nature made us. Nature did it all—not the gods of the religions."

"There is far more opportunity than there is ability."

"The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants."

"Destruction of false theories will not decrease the sum of human happiness in future, any more than it has in the past."

"The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast."

"Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration."

"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."

"If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value."

"Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best. Life’s most soothing things are sweet music and a child’s goodnight."

"The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are—hard work, stick-to-itiveness, and common sense."

"I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator."

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

"Work while others are wishing."

"Our intelligence is the aggregate intelligence of the cells which make us up. There is no soul, distinct from mind, and what we speak of as the mind is just the aggregate intelligence of cells."

"Most inventors who have an idea never stop to think whether their invention will be saleable when they get it made. Unless a man has plenty of money to throw away, he will find that making inventions is about the costliest amusement he can find."

"I don’t live with the past. I am living for today and tomorrow."

"People are not remembered by how few times they fail, but by how often they succeed."

"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."

"What you are will show in what you do."

"A man’s best friend is a good wife."

"Focus on how the end-user customers perceive the impact of your innovation, rather than on how you, the innovators, perceive it."

"Vision without execution is hallucination."

"Tomorrow is my exam but I don’t care because a single sheet of paper can’t decide my future."

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

"Success is 90% perspiration and 10% inspiration!"

"Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won’t work."

"I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction."

"I never did a day’s work in my life. It was all fun."

"Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge. Remedies from chemicals will never stand in favor compared with the products of nature, the living cell of the plant, the final result of the rays of the sun, the mother of all life."

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

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

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

"A minor invention every 10 days, and a big one every six months or so."

"I’ve never made a mistake. I’ve only learned from experience."

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

"I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident. They came by work."

"What a man’s mind can create, a man’s character can control."

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

"There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever."

"I readily absorb ideas from every source."

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

"I do not believe in the God of the theologians, but that there is a supreme intelligence I do not doubt."

"I start where the last man left off."

"We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present."

"Learn with both your head and hands."

"The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet, and the cause and prevention of disease."

"My main purpose in life is to make enough money to create ever more inventions. The dove is my emblem. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it."

"Religion is all bunk."

"To my mind the old masters are not art. Their value is in their scarcity."

"When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this—you haven’t."

"Study, along the lines which the theologies have mapped, will never lead us to the discovery of the fundamental facts of our existence. That goal must be attained by means of exact science and can only be achieved by such means."

"Hard work, nothing to divert my thought, clear air and simple food made my life very pleasant."

"One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But, I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success."

"I have more respect for the fellow with a single idea who gets there than for the fellow with a thousand ideas who does nothing."

"Never stop learning. Read the entire panorama of literature."

"We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using nature’s inexhaustible sources of energy—sun, wind, and tide. I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don’t have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that."

"The criticisms which have been hurled at me have not worried me."

"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."

"Life goes on endlessly, but no more in human beings than in other animals, or, for that matter, than in vegetables. Life, collectively, must be immortal, human beings, individually, cannot be, as I see it, for they are not the individuals, they are mere aggregates of cells."

"When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes."

"There is no supernatural. We are continually learning new things. There are powers within us which have not yet been developed and they will develop. We shall learn things of ourselves, which will be full of wonders, but none of them will be beyond the natural."

"Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth."

"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!"

"What I have denied and what my reason compels me to deny, is the existence of a being throned above us as a god, directing our mundane affairs in detail, regarding us as individuals, punishing us, rewarding us as human judges might."

"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."