Thomas A. Edison Success Quotations

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.

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

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

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

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

Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

I have not failed 10,000 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 10,000 ways will not work,

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.