Thomas Alva Edison Best Quotes
American Invention And Businessman ‘’1847 – 1931’’
Thomas Alva Edison was born on February 11, 1847, in Milan, Ohio. He was a prolific inventor and savvy businessman who acquired a record number of 1,093 patents (singly or jointly) and was the driving force behind such innovations as the phonograph, the incandescent light bulb, the alkaline battery and one of the earliest motion picture cameras.
He also created the world’s first industrial research laboratory. Known as the “Wizard of Menlo Park,” for the New Jersey town where he did some of his best-known work, Edison had become one of the most famous men in the world by the time he was in his 30s.
In addition to his talent for invention, Edison was also a successful manufacturer who was highly skilled at marketing his inventions—and himself—to the public. here are Thomas Alva Edison Best Quotes.
For life
“I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.”
“Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.”
“I don’t live with the past; I am living for to-day and to-morrow.”
“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.”
“The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.”
“Success is 90% perspiration and 10% inspiration!”
“I never view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn’t work.”
“The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.”
“I never did a day’s work in my life. It was all fun.”
“Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.”
“To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.”
“You can’t realize your dreams unless you have one to begin with.”
“Vision without execution is hallucination.”
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
“I readily absorb ideas from every source, frequently starting where the last person left off.”
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”
Psychology
“If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.”
“People are not remembered by how few times they fail, but by how often they succeed. Every wrong step is another step forward.”
“The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.”
“What you are will show in what you do.”
“If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.”
“What a man’s mind can create, man’s character should control.”
“Discontent is the first necessity of progress.”
Philosophy
“The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.”
“We don’t know a millionth of one percent about anything.”
“Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.”
“There is no substitute for hard work.”
To Remember
“We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present.”
“Good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.”
“There’s a way to do it better – find it.”
More than any other individual, he was credited with building the framework for modern technology and society in the age of electricity. His Glenmont estate where he died in 1931 and West Orange laboratory are now open to the public as the Thomas Edison National Historical Park.
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