Thomas A. Edison Trying Quotations

There ain't no rules around here, we're trying to accomplish something.

After we had conducted thousands of experiments on a certain project without solving the problem, one of my associates, after we had conducted the crowning experiment and it had proved a failure, expressed discouragement and disgust over our having failed to find out anything. I cheerily assured him that we had learned something. For we had learned for a certainty that the thing couldnt be done that way, and that we would have to try some other way.

M. A. Rosanoff: Mr. Edison, please tell me what laboratory rules you want me to observe. Edison: There ain't no rules around here. We're trying to accomplish somep'n!

I'll try anything...I'll even try Limburger cheese!

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

I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it

They were not failures, they were new found ways of what does not work "I can accept failure,everyonefails at something. But I can't accept not trying

I try not to invent things that people don't need.

The inventor tries to meet the demand of a crazy civilization.

Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.