edison Quotes

“Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.”

“I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.”

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

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

“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.”

“To have a great idea, have a lot of them.”

“Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.”

“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.”

“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!”

“The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.”