“ Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. Thomas A. Edison
“ I have always been interested in this . My father had a set of 's books on the shelf at home. I must have opened the covers about the time I was 13. And I can still remember the flash of enlightenment… Thomas A. Edison
“ The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense. Thomas A. Edison
“ Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success. Thomas A. Edison
“ Suffered then, as now he suffers not so much because of what he wrote as from the misinterpretations of others...He disbelieved the ancient myths and miracles taught by established creeds. But the att… Thomas A. Edison
“ Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work. Thomas A. Edison
“ Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purp… Thomas A. Edison
“ Many of life's failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. Thomas A. Edison
“ Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. Thomas A. Edison
“ Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless. Thomas A. Edison
“ Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. Thomas A. Edison
“ I told [John Kruesi] I was going to record talking, and then have the machine talk back. He thought it absurd. However, it was finished, the foil was put on; I then shouted 'Mary had a little lamb', e… Thomas A. Edison
“ Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. Thomas A. Edison
