Thomas A. Edison Quotes

I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work.

If the first plan which you adopt does not work successfully, replace it with a new plan; if this new plan fails to work, replace it in turn with still another, and so on, until you find a plan which does work. Right here is the point at which the majority of men meet with failure, because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

I learned two basic lessons on Everest. First, just because something has worked in the past does not mean it will work today. Second, different challenges require different mindsets.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Almost nothing works the first time it's attempted. Just because what you're doing does not seem to be working, doesn't mean it won't work. It just means that it might not work the way you're doing it.

I've been lucky enough to work with some of the best TV directors there are, and I've learned from how they had to handle when things don't go quite according to plan.

The important thing about Edison is that he realized that failure was an opportunity to learn…. Unless you fail, you can’t learn.

Almost everything you do fails. To develop a great success we must have thousands of failures along the way

An inventor is simply a person who doesn't take his education too seriously. He tries and fails maybe a 1000 times. If he succeeds once, then he's in.

There have been failures in the past, and I know there will be in future as well. But I have learnt from them.

I'm figuring it out as I go, I'm good at that.

An open-minded person running a business might catch a problem faster than a closed-minded person. And when they identify a problem, they can fix it much faster.

I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

Sometimes you can fail in an experiment. But if you fail, you still don't stop observing that thing, looking for a better way.

Every time you find something that doesn't work, you're a step closer to what does work.

Much can often be learned by the repetition under different conditions, even if the desired result is not obtained.

When I had challenges, it taught me to be more on top of it for the future. Things go wrong all the time when you're running your own business, but it's how you perceive it and deal with it that matters.

The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

That's the way it is with entrepreneurial people. You try one thing, it doesn't work, you try another.

I have ideas that I think might be amusing, and I try them, and if they look right, I carry them out, and if they don't, I throw them out and try something else. I don't agonize about it.

It would seem that the ant works its way tentatively, and, observing where it fails, tries another place and succeeds.

I've had a lot of success; I've had failures, so I learn from the failure.