Quotes Tagged With :edison

The recurrence of a phenomenon like [Thomas] Edison is not very likely. The profound change of conditions....

Henry Ford believed the soul of a person is located in their last breath and so captured the last breath....

The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness;....

If he [Thomas Edison] had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it was most....

When we set about accounting for a Napoleon or a Shakespeare or a Raphael or a Wagner or an Edison or....

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

As Edison is credited with saying, "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls....

You don't get drown by falling into a river. You get drown by remaining there. Falling accidentally and....

Edison was by far the most successful and, probably, the last exponent of the purely empirical method....

I came from Paris in the Spring of 1884, and was brought in intimate contact with him [Thomas Edison].....