Thomas A. Edison Quotes

Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That's just hot air.

Work will take everything you give it. It's up to you to work out what you want to give it.

Do the day's work.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him.

Given two people with exactly the same ability, the one person who manages day in and day out to get in one more hour of thinking will be tremendously more productive over a lifetime.

When you think something is cool already, it's okay to put in an honest day's work.

You don't think I work 14 hours a day right now?! I mean, I still put in the hours, I still do the work.

Work hard, play hard.

When things are starting to work, you get up at five in the morning thinking, what are we going to do today? You stay up until one in the morning getting it done, and then you start the next day with the same energy, because it's working!

It's important to work hard - there's no short cut around that.

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can, you can't do any better.

You'd be amazed how much research you can get done when you have no life whatsoever.

You must work and should not be lazy if you want to be happy.

I believe that India is such a big country that one must do as much work as possible. So I keep doing that.

There was no one around me who didn't work hard.

I like to work - I probably work too much.

I've only had two rules: Do all you can and do it the best you can. It's the only way you ever get that feeling of accomplishing something.

I do give myself a break in my personal life but I think in work, if you don't push yourself you get bored and want to do something else.

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working.

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

I knew I could control one thing, and that is my time and my hours and my effort and my efficiency.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.