Thomas A. Edison Quotes About Success

Quotes about: Success

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

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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

  Thomas A. Edison

  Funny, Life, Motivational

  "An Enemy Called Average". Book by John L. Mason, 1990.
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  I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "From Telegraph to Light Bulb with Thomas Edison". Book by Deborah Headstrom-Page, 2007.

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

  Thomas A. Edison

  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

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

  Thomas A. Edison

  Success, Focus, Energy

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

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Harper's Monthly Magazine, September 1932.

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

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

  Thomas A. Edison

  Success, Work, Common Sense

• The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Success, Commitment, Action

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

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

• 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

  Success, Hard Work, Opportunity

• 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.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

• Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Success, Educational, Failure

  "The Diary and Sundry Observations of Thomas Alva Edison". Book by Thomas A. Edison, 1948.

• I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Funny, Success, Motivation

• Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

• The real measure of success is the number of experiments that can be crowded into 24 hours.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Success, Real, Numbers

• I have not failed 10,000 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 10,000 ways will not work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspiring, Success, Business

  "Eight dos and don'ts for launching a successful business" by Nick Leech, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2017.

• 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.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Success, Jobs, Failure

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

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Defending and Parenting Children Who Learn Differently : Lessons from Edison's Mother". Book by Scott Teel, 2007.

• I was always afraid of things that worked the first time. Long experience proved that there were great drawbacks found generally before they could be got commercial; but here was something there was no doubt of.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Success, Science, Long

• It has been just so in all my inventions. The first step is an intuition-and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise. This thing that gives out and then that-"Bugs"as such little faults and difficulties are called show themselves and months of anxious watching, study and labor are requisite before commercial success-or failure-is certainly reached.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Success, Science, Giving

  Letter to Theodore Puskas, 18 Nov. 1878.

• 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.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Love, Inspirational, Success

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