Thomas A. Edison Quotes & Sayings

51 most famous Thomas A. Edison quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He was an American inventor who passed away on 8 October, 1931.

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

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”

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

“There's a way to do it better - find it.”

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

“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.”

“There is no substitute for hard work.”

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

“The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.”

“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 purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.”