Quotes by Thomas Edison

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

"We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything."

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

"The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense."

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

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

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

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

"I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident"

"If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves."

"Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits."

"Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration."

"If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward."