Thomas A. Edison Quotes

But there's no substitute for getting smarter faster. And the way you get smarter is to screw around vigorously. Try stuff. See what works. See what fails miserably. Learn. Rinse. Repeat.

40% of what I've done was a mistake. I now call it R&D.

We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

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

You can discover great things through 'mistakes.'

There are people who say that you can't experiment... That condemns you to failure.

Expect to make some mistakes when you try new and different approaches. Sometimes colossal failures lead to spectacular successes.

You've got to experiment to figure out what works.

In all pioneer movements, they underwent a period of experimentation in which mistakes were made which, eventually, according to their proponents, might have led to valuable findings and encouraging results …

Error is the price we pay for progress.

Part of innovation is, fake it until you make it. Keep trying things, but it's not just the random trying.

Do not imagine that you have to know everything before you can do anything. My own best work was done when I was most ignorant.

What good is an idea if it remains an idea? Try. Experiment. Iterate. Fail. Try again. Change the world.

Life is about trying things to see if they work.

The only way you improve is to try new things.

There is no map, and charting a path ahead will not be easy. We will need to invent, which means we will need to experiment.

Success comes from persistently improving and inventing, not from persistently promoting what’s not working.

One reason people who spend a lot of time thinking about and working on a problem or a craft seem to find breakthroughs more often than everyone else is that they've failed more often than everyone else.

If you're not failing all the time, you're not creating a situation where you can get lucky.

I wouldn't say I'm a very original thinker, but if I have a good experience with something, I'll want to take it further or adapt it in some way.

In order to innovate, you have to experiment.

Few ideas work on the first try. Iteration is key to innovation.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

Kids should be allowed to break stuff more often. That's a consequence of exploration. Exploration is what you do when you don't know what you're doing. That's what scientists do every day.

I learned from my dad that change and experimentation are constants and important. You have to keep trying new things.