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The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.
Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! ... I've failed my way to success.
I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.
I never once failed at making a light bulb. I just found out 99 ways not to make one.
Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.
The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.
I remember that I was never able to get along at school. I was at the foot of the class.
I would rather have one man with enthusiasm working with me than ten who are complacent.
I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
Having a vision for what you want is not enough...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
The First 40 hours of work per week are for survival. Everything after that is for success.
The real measure of success is the number of experiments that can be crowded into 24 hours.
Direct thought is not an attribute of feminity. In this, women are now centuries behind man.
I did not fail two thousand times. I merely found two thousand ways not to make a lightbulb.
So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake ... Religion is all bunk.
Incurably religious, that is the best way to describe the mental condition of so many people.
The biggest failure of man is that he gives up before he realizes how close he was to success.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.
I never view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn't work.
There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Thank God we can start a new.
I have not failed 10,000 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 10,000 ways will not work.
They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
I am much less interested in what is called God's word than in God's deeds. All bibles are man-made.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can't afford to lose.
Failure is the most effective technique to optimize strategic planning, implementation and processes.
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
Sleep is like a drug. Take too much at a time and it makes you dopey. You lose time and opportunities.
I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
IF PARENTS PASS ENTHUSIASM ALONG TO THEIR CHILDREN, THEY WILL LEAVE THEM AN ESTATE OF INCALCULABLE VALUE
I do not believe in the God of the theologians; but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt.
I am a vegetarian as well as a passionate anti-alcoholic, because I can thus make better use of my brain.
I never knew I had an inventive talent until Phrenology told me so. I was a stranger to myself until then!
I will not say I failed 1000 times, I will say that I discovered there are 1000 ways that can cause failure
There seems to be no limit to which some men will go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thinking is hard work.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
I do not believe any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States.
We haven't failed. We now know a thousand things that won't work, so we are much closer to finding what will.
We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present.
The man who doesn’t make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasure in life.