Thomas A. Edison Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.”

“To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.”

“Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.”

“There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.”

“If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.”

“What you are will show in what you do.”

“The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.”

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

“Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.”

“I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.”