Thomas A. Edison Quotes About Values

Quotes about: Values

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

  Thomas A. Edison

  Business, Good Life, Lying

• IF PARENTS PASS ENTHUSIASM ALONG TO THEIR CHILDREN, THEY WILL LEAVE THEM AN ESTATE OF INCALCULABLE VALUE

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Family, Education

• It is absurd to say that our country can issue $30,000,000 in bonds and not $30,000,000 in currency. Both are promises to pay; but one promise fattens the usurer (banker), and the other helps the people. If the currency issued by the Government were no good, then the bonds issued would be no good either. It is a terrible situation when the Government, to increase the national wealth, must go into debt and submit to ruinous interest charges at the hands of men who control the fictitious values of gold.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Country, Men, Issues

• There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Thank God we can start a new.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Mistake, Thank God, Disaster

• My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Ideas, Giving

• 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. Interest is the invention of Satan.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Men, Hands, Gold

• 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

• To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Art, Philosophy, History

• The value of a good idea is in using it.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Ideas, Good Ideas, Values

• I am more of a sponge than an inventor. I absorb ideas from every source. I take half-matured schemes for mechanical development and make them practical. I am a sort of a middleman between the long-haired and impractical inventor and the hard-headed business man who measures all things in terms of dollars and cents. My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant but misdirected ideas of others.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Men, Ideas, Long

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