Thomas Edison

My principal business consists of giving commercial value to the brilliant, but misdirected, ideas of others… Accordingly, I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.

Thomas Edison

My success is due more to my ability to work continuously on one thing without stopping than to any other single quality.

Thomas Edison

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.

Thomas Edison

Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best

Thomas Edison

Of the 200 light bulbs that didn’t work, every failure told me something that I was able to incorporate into the next attempt.

Thomas Edison

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so… I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Thomas Edison

Perhaps dandruff is the excreta of the mind — the quantity of this material being directly proportional to the amount of reading one indulges in. A book on German metaphysics would thus easily ruin a dress suit.

Thomas Edison

Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits. I believe that restlessness is discontent, and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Thomas Edison

Sticking to it is the genius.

Thomas Edison

The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.

Thomas Edison