Thomas Edison Quotes

I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Seventy-five of us worked twenty hours every day and slept only four hours — and thrived on it.

We really haven't got any great amount of data on the subject, and without data how can we reach any definite conclusions? All we have — everything — favors the idea of what religionists call the "Hereafter." Science, if it ever learns the facts, probably will find another more definitely descriptive term.

When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.

I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.

I haven't failed,I have just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

I will not say that I failed a 1000 times but that I found 1000 ways to fail.

I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.

There is no substitute for hard work

I find out what the world needs. Then, I go ahead and invent it.

I do not believe in the God of the theologians; but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

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.

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

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

Nearly every person who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.