Thomas Edison

Everyone steals in commerce and industry. I’ve stolen a lot, myself. But I know how to steal! They don’t know how to steal!

Thomas Edison

Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.

Thomas Edison

Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! Any other bright-minded fellow can accomplish just as much if he will stick like hell and remember nothing that’s any good works by itself. You’ve got to make the damn thing work!… I failed my way to success.

Thomas Edison

Having a vision for what you want is not enough… Vision without execution is hallucination.

Thomas Edison

I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.

Thomas Edison

I am much less interested in what is called God’s word than in God’s deeds. All bibles are man-made.

Thomas Edison

I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention. It’s their ‘ideas’ that appeal to me. I am quite correctly described as ‘more of a sponge than an inventor.

Thomas Edison

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

Thomas Edison

I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul. No, all this talk of an existence for us, as individuals, beyond the grave is wrong. It is born of our tenacity of life – our desire to go on living – our dread of coming to an end.

Thomas Edison

I have better use for my brain than to poison it with alcohol. To put alcohol in the human brain is like putting sand in the bearings of an engine.

Thomas Edison