I leave you the best phrases of Thomas Edison (1847-1931) , American inventor and businessman responsible for patenting more than 1000 inventions, including the phonograph, the incandescent light bulb or the movie camera.
You may also be interested in these entrepreneurial phrases or these of perseverance.
-Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The surest way to be successful is to always try one more time.
-The opportunity is lost by most people because they dress normally and it looks like work.
-There is no substitute for hard work.
-To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of garbage.
-We must remember that good fortune often occurs when opportunity meets preparation.
-If we did all the things that we are capable of, we would literally surprise ourselves.
-Discontent is the first need for progress. Show me a completely satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
-Many of life's failures are from people who don't realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
-I have not failed. I have found 10,000 ways that don't work.
-Everything comes to the one who hurries while waiting.
-To have a great idea, have many of them.
-The best thoughts have been made in solitude. The worst have been made in turmoil.
-I never had a day at work in my life. It was all fun.
-When you have exhausted all possibilities, I remember this; You have not done it.
-There are no rules here; we are trying to achieve something.
-What you are will show in what you do.
-Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the least he can afford to waste or lose.
-What the mind of man can create, the character of man can control.
-When I have completely decided that a result is worth achieving, I go forward and try after attempt until it arrives.
-The first requirement for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to a problem, without ceasing and without tiring.
-Just because something doesn't happen as you planned, doesn't mean it's useless.
-Five percent of people think; ten percent of people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.
-The great ideas originate in the muscles.
-There is a way to do it better; Find it.
-Negative results are just what I want. They are as valuable to me as the positive results. I can't find what works best until I find what doesn't.
-Non-violence guides to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living things, we are still wild.
-The genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
-I find my greatest pleasure, and therefore my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
-I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to make it up.
-Discontent is the first need for progress.
-The value of an idea lies in the use of it.
-The three great essential elements to achieve anything worthwhile are: hard work, sticking and common sense.
-The value consists in what you are and not in what you have.
-I start where the last man left off.
-The main function of the body is to carry the brain around.
-Anything that is not sold, I do not want to invent. Its sale is proof of usefulness and profit is success.
-I never did anything by chance, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; They came for work.
-I have normal friends whose friendship I would not change for the favor of the kings of the world.
-The doctor of the future will not give any medication, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in the human diet and in the cause and prevention of diseases.
-The body is a community formed by its innumerable cells or inhabitants.
-Be brave. I have seen many depressions in business. America has always emerged from these, stronger and more prosperous. Be brave like your parents. Have faith. Go forward.
-Mature is often more absurd than youth and very often it is more unfair to youth.
-I am proud of the fact that I have never invented weapons to kill.
-Our schools are not teaching students to think. It is amazing how many young people have a hard time putting their brains permanently and consistently to work.
-We are going to make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.
-As a cure for worry, work is better than whiskey.
- Personally, I like to work around 18 hours a day. In addition to the short naps I take each day, I average four to five hours of sleep per night.
-People are not remembered for the number of times they fail, but for the number of times they succeed.
-We don't even know a millionth of one percent of anything.
-I failed on my way to success.
-In my opinion, the old masters are not a work of art; its value lies in its scarcity.
-When the churches begin to have a rational vision of things and stop teaching fables, they will be more effective than they are today.
-Unfortunately, it seems that there are many more opportunities than abilities.
-Tomorrow is my exam but I will not let any sheet of paper decide my future.
-When a man desires something so deeply that he is determined to risk his entire future for just one chance, he will surely win.
-Everything said about existence after the grave is wrong. It is simply the product of our desire to continue living, of our fear of reaching an end.
-A man cannot control his beliefs.
-We know nature. We do not know the gods of each of the religions. And nature is not kind, not merciful, not loving.
-None of the gods of all the various religions have been really verified.
-We are continually learning new things.
-My success is due to the fact that I never had a watch in my workshop.
-My mind is not capable of understanding something like a soul. Perhaps he is wrong, and man has a soul; but I just don't think so.
-The fact that man for centuries has believed… in what is called God does not really prove that his theory is correct.
-I don't think there is a miracle at all. My guide must be my reason and when I think of miracles my reason is rebellious.
-The soul is beyond my understanding.
-The destruction of false theories will not reduce the sum of human happiness in the future, just as it did not in the past.
-I have not reached my conclusions from the study of traditions. I have reached my conclusions by studying the facts.
-What I deny and what my mind forces me to deny, is the existence of a god who directs our affairs.
-During all these years of experimentation and research, I never had a discovery. My work was simply educational, and its results were those of invention.
-Don't lie, but don't be fooled.
-Beliefs and creeds greatly hinder the development of humanity… I think that creeds are less important to the average mind every day.
-What amazes me most about theology is that it does not seem that it is investigating. It just seems like they are claiming without a real study.
-The entities that give life to the human soul and body are smaller than cells and are infinitely beyond the reach of our greatest scientific instruments.
-All the problems that perplex us now, sooner or later, will be solved through scientific research.
-I don't believe in the immortality of the soul.
-The most important task of civilization is to teach people to think.
-He who does not decide to cultivate the habit of thinking, loses the greatest pleasure in life.
-I don't believe in the God of theologians; but I know that there is a supreme intelligence, I do not doubt it.
-We don't have a large amount of data on the subject, and without data, how can we draw definitive conclusions?
-Our intelligence is the intelligence of the cells that make us up.
-When one cuts a finger, I think that the intelligence of the entities that make up the body is what heals wounds.
-The teaching of morality is what is most needed in this world.
-Many people who could not understand Rousseau and who distrusted Montesquieu, could understand Tom Paine.
-I believe in the existence of a greater intelligence that fills the entire Universe.
-In order for a person to think clearer, he should organize his time to have periods of solitude in which he can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distractions.
-There is no recourse to which a man does not go to avoid the real work of thinking.
-A good intention with a bad approach, almost always leads us towards a bad result.
-One day a machine will emerge from the brain of science that possesses such fearsome and terrible strength that even man, the warrior, the one who is willing to endure death, will leave war forever.
-The purpose of all work is to produce or achieve something, and for any of these purposes there must be foresight, a system, planning, intelligence and honest purpose.
-Everyone steals in commerce and industry. I stole a lot myself. But I know how to do it. They do not.
-Do you know that there are living cells in the body that are so minimal that they cannot be seen with a microscope?
-Studying in the line that theology says, will never lead us to the discovery of the fundamental facts of our life.
-I would invest my money in the Sun and in solar energy. I hope we don't wait until the oil and coal run out before doing so.
-Nature is seriously wonderful. Only man is really dirty.
-The mind of a child is naturally active, it develops through exercise.
-An experience is never a failure, since it always comes to demonstrate something.
-I cannot accept any theory that is not testable.
-I have never seen even a small scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of what the life of people or of a personal God will be.
-Charity is a faculty of the heart, not of the hands.
-Personally, I do not believe that Christ claimed to have performed miracles or claimed to have any miraculous power.