Results! Why man I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand...
It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their...
I never did anything by accident nor did any of my inventions come by...
The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually...
I have not failed. I've just found 10 000 ways that won't work.
There is no substitute for hard work.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and...
Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim...
I find my greatest pleasure and so my reward in the work that precedes what...
Anything that won't sell I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of...
Religion is all bunk.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is...
One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward...
I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.
I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that...
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is...
To have a great idea have a lot of them.
Great ideas originate in the muscles.
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work...
To invent you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of...
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress....
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to...
There's the conventional wisdom of which I have none where you get a record deal you get a publicist you get a campaign and you do the tour but none of that adds up to things like nuance and subtlety and dynamic.