Thomas Alva Edison Quotes

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

  Thomas Alva Edison

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Because, Useless, Something, Planned, Just, Mean

• To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.

  Thomas Alva Edison

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Value, Mind

• There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

  Thomas Alva Edison

  Topics in Death

  Tags in School, Force, Forever, Spring, Order

• Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That’s not the place to become discouraged.

  Thomas Alva Edison

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Every, Point, Place, Idea, Impossible, Man, Looks

• The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.

  Thomas Alva Edison

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Body, Community

• I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.

  Thomas Alva Edison

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fact, Proud, Weapon, Kill

• We don’t know a millionth of one percent about anything.

  Thomas Alva Edison

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Anything, Million

• There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.

  Thomas Alva Edison

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Expedient, Avoid, Thinking, Man, Labor

• I start where the last man left off.

  Thomas Alva Edison

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Start, Man

• Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won’t work.

  Thomas Alva Edison

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Result, Things, Man

• Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

  Thomas Alva Edison

  Topics in Failure, Progress

  Tags in Satisfied, Man

• The value of an idea lies in the using of it.

  Thomas Alva Edison

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Ideas

• Great ideas originate in the muscles.

  Thomas Alva Edison

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Great, Muscles, Ideas

• I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists – proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.

  Thomas Alva Edison

  Topics in Intelligence

  Tags in Proves, World, Rule, Everything, Infinite

• Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

  Thomas Alva Edison

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Faith, Seen, Forward, Stronger

• Hell, there are no rules here – we’re trying to accomplish something.

  Thomas Alva Edison

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Here, Rules, Accomplishment, Hell, Trying, Something

• The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.

  Thomas Alva Edison

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Solitude, Worst, Best, Thinking

• Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.

  Thomas Alva Edison

  Topics in Ability

  Tags in Limitless, Every, Time, Person

• The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.

  Thomas Alva Edison

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Function, Carry, Body, Around

• They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.

  Thomas Alva Edison

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Usually, Forward, Perhaps

Thomas Alva Edison (60)

Birth:	11th February, 1847
Death:	18th October, 1931
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Businessman, Inventor

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