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

There is no substitute for hard work.

The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child.

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

Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.

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

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

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Do the thing and the power will come.

I never view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn’t work.

I never view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn’t work.

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

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

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

The secret of success is focus of purpose.

The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn’t like to do.

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

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn’t they?

Inventors don’t have time for married life.

Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.

To get a great idea, come up with lots of them.

Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.

Let’s go invent tomorrow.

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.