12 Inspiring Quotes from Thomas Edison

Here at are a few of Datavo's favorite quotes by Thomas Edison, one of the fathers of the telephone.

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

• Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

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

• Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.

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

• Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

• Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.

• Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.

• 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.

• The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.

• Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

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