“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

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.

To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction.

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

Never go to sleep without a request to your subconscious.

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

I do not believe in the God of the theologians; but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt.

Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.

Most important thing is to get rid of doubt. If you got doubt in what you’re doing it’s not gonna work.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

Healthy mindset is a key to wealthy life.

Your competitor is not other people. Your competitor is your ego.

It breaks my heart that some people are only kind when there is something in it for them. Everything is a business now, including human decency.

I had fun in the markets for a while but learned investing in myself and business was a better use of my funds.

You have to put in the effort and go above and beyond everything you know. ⁣