"There is no substitute for hard work."
"The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary."
"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."
"Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration."
"If we did all the things we were capable of doing, We would literally astound ourselves."
"Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something."
"I am long on ideas, but short on time. I only expect to live about a hundred years."
"As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey."
"Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress."
"When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes."
"There's a better way to do it. Find it!"
"Great ideas originate in the muscles."
"There is no substitute for hard work"
"Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be."
"There is no substitute for hard work."
"Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless."
"We are striking it big in the electric light, better than my vivid imagination first conceived. Where this thing is going to stop Lord only knows."
"(1903) I believe that the motion picture is destined to revolutionize our educational system and that in a few years it will supplant largely, if not entirely, the use of textbooks."
"We don`t know a millionth of one percent about anything."
"I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work."
"I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward."
"(1922) We don’t know a millionth of one percent about anything."
"Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure."
"I never once made a discovery ... I speak without exaggeration that I have constructed three thousand different theories in connection with the electric light. Yet in only two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory."
"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninty-nine percent perspiration."