Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward.

There is no limit to which a man will not go to avoid thinking.

There is much more opportunity than there are people to see it.

You can't realize your dreams unless you have one to begin with.

Genius defined: of inspiration 1% percent, of perspiration, 99%.

I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process.

It is remarkable to what lengths people will go to avoid thought.

In creating technology for ourselves we created it for the world.

Success depends on how many experiments you can fit into 24 hours

The trouble with most people is that they quit before they start.

Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Two per cent. is genius, and ninety-eight per cent. is hard work.

Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.

Show me a completely contented person and I'll show you a failure.

Success is based on imagination plus ambition and the will to work.

Before you reject an idea, find at least five good things about it.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure.

The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus.

Nature made us - nature did it all - not the gods of the religions.

I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.

Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.

A good intention, with a bad approach, often leads to a poor result.

Accomplishing something provides the only real satisfaction in life.

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

I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it

I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.

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

We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.

When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.

I am afraid of radium and polonium ... I don't want to monkey with them.

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

I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor....'

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

As Danand Ian over at the Lifestyle Business Podcast say: Rush to failure.

It is the best book ever written on the subject. There is nothing like it!

I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.

The perils of overwork are slight compared with the dangers of inactivity.

Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.

Never Say I Failed 99 Times, Say I Discovered 99 Ways Which Causes Failure!

I believe in the existence of a Supreme Intelligence pervading the Universe.

I've realized that most of my best ideas have followed a good night's sleep.

Nothing that's good works by itself, you've got to make the damn thing work.

I have not failed. I have successfully discovered 1200 ideas that don't work.

Most of my ideas belonged to other people who never bothered to develop them.

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

The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast

The strength of the Constitution, lies in the will of the people to defend it.

Success is the product of the severest kind of mental and physical application.

Let the public throw bouquets to the inventors and in time we will all be happy.

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