I never did a day’s work in my life. It was all fun.

- Thomas Edison

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

- Thomas Edison

What you are will show in what you do

- Thomas Edison

When you have exhausted all possibilities, Remember this - You haven't

- Thomas Edison

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 Edison

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

- Thomas Edison

If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.

- Thomas Edison

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits

- Thomas Edison

The world owes nothing to any man, but every man owes something to the world

- Thomas Edison

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

- Thomas Edison

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time

- Thomas Edison

The man who doesn't make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasure in life

- Thomas Edison

There is no substitute for hard work

- Thomas Edison

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

- Thomas Edison

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work

- Thomas Edison