Explore more quotes by Thomas A. Edison

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

Success, Proof, Want

"What you are will show in what you do."

Attitude, Will

"Great ideas originate in the muscles."

Wisdom, Ideas

"Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless."

Wisdom, Time, Ability, Loss, Question

"One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success."

Wisdom, Money, Success, Work, Invention

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

Leadership, Hell, Rules, Trying

"There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking."

Wisdom, Labor, Man, Thinking, Will

"The value of an idea lies in the using of it."

Innovation, Idea, Lies, Value

"Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure."

Progress, Failure, Discontent, First

"I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun."

Attitude, Work, Life, Day, Fun

Exlpore more Opportunity quotes

"We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets."

Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman

Opportunity,

"Your big opportunity may be right where you are now."

Napoleon Hill, American Writer

Opportunity, May, Now, Right

"Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor."

H. Jackson Brown, Jr., American Author

Opportunity, Dance

"I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one."

Mark Twain, American Author

Opportunity,

"America is another name for opportunity."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Opportunity, America, Name

"Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat."

Napoleon Hill, American Writer

Opportunity, Defeat, Misfortune

"What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Opportunity, People, Deeds, Old

"Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope."

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

Opportunity, Hope, Quick, Youth

"No great man ever complains of want of opportunity."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Opportunity, Man, Want

"Let the path be open to talent."

Napoleon Bonaparte, French Leader

Opportunity, Talent, Open