Thomas A. Edison Quotes about Success

All Thomas A. Edison Quotes Accomplishment Achievement Ambition Art Atheism Atheist Business Character Children Common Sense Constitution Country Courage Creativity Earth Education Effort Energy Exercise Failing Failure Focus Funny Genius Giving Giving Up Happiness Hard Work Health Imagination Innovation Inspiration Inspirational Inspiring Knowledge Life Lying Memories Money Motivation Motivational My Way Nature Opportunity Past Peace Perseverance Persistence Personality Planning Positive Progress Purpose Quitting Religion Running Satan School Science Sleep Soul Study Success quotes Technology Time Values Vision Wisdom Work Work Out

The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.

The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.

Thomas A. Edison

Success, Commitment, Action

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

Thomas A. Edison

Success, Work, Common Sense

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

Thomas A. Edison

Happiness, Inspiring, Success

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure.

Thomas A. Edison

Success, Educational, Failure

"The Diary and Sundry Observations of Thomas Alva Edison". Book by Thomas A. Edison, 1948.

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

Thomas A. Edison

Success, Hard Work, Opportunity

Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.

Thomas A. Edison

Success, Jobs, Failure

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Thomas A. Edison

Funny, Success, Motivation

Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability.... We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.

Thomas A. Edison

Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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

Thomas A. Edison

Success, Focus, Energy

It has been just so in all my inventions. The first step is an intuition-and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise. This thing that gives out and then that-"Bugs"as such little faults and difficulties are called show themselves and months of anxious watching, study and labor are requisite before commercial success-or failure-is certainly reached.

Thomas A. Edison

Success, Science, Giving

Letter to Theodore Puskas, 18 Nov. 1878.

The real measure of success is the number of experiments that can be crowded into 24 hours.

Thomas A. Edison

Success, Real, Numbers

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Thomas A. Edison

Love, Inspirational, Success

I was always afraid of things that worked the first time. Long experience proved that there were great drawbacks found generally before they could be got commercial; but here was something there was no doubt of.

Thomas A. Edison

Success, Science, Long