Thomas A. Edison Quotes About Work

Quotes about: Work

• There is no substitute for hard work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Perseverance, Morning

• 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.

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

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Harper's Monthly Magazine, September 1932.

• I never did a day's work in my life, it was all fun.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Life, Fun

  "Edison & Ford Quote Book". Book by Edison & Ford Winter Estates, 2003.

• 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

• 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

• Great ideas originate in the muscles.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Life, Motivation, Work

• Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Education, Work

• 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

• Work while others are wishing.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Work, Stay Positive

• Today, I am wondering what would have happened to me by now, if, fifty years ago, some fluent talker had converted me to the theory of the eight-hour day and convinced me that it was not fair to my fellow-workers to put forth my best efforts in my work? I am glad that the eight-hour day had not been invented when I was a young man. If my life had been made up of eight-hour days, I don't believe I could have accomplished a great deal.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Life, Country, Work

  "Along Broadway: The Edison Musical Magazine".

• A reporter called on Edison to interview him about a substitute for lead in the manufacture of storage batteries that the scientist was seeking. Edison informed the man that he had made 20,000 experiments but none had worked. "Aren't you discouraged by all this waste of effort?" the reporter asked. Edison: "Waste! There's nothing wasted. I have discovered 20,000 things that won't work."

  Thomas A. Edison

  Work, Men, Discovery

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