Thomas Edison: Motivational Quotes

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“Hell! There ain't no rules around here! We are tryin' to accomplish somep'n!”

Thomas Edison

Response received (after Edison spat on the floor and before he walked off) when M. A. Rosanoff joined the West Orange, New Jersey team in 1903 and humbly asked: “Mr. Edison, please tell me what laboratory rules you want me to observe.” M. A. Rosanoff’s quote appeared in Harper’s Monthly, September 1932, p. 24.
1900s
Variant: There ain´t no rules around here. We are trying to accomplish something.

Hell

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”

Thomas Edison

As quoted in Edison & Ford Quote Book (2003) edited by Edison & Ford Winter Estates.
Date unknown

For Team , Motivational , Positive , Business

“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”

Thomas Edison

This is presented as a statement of 1877, as quoted in From Telegraph to Light Bulb with Thomas Edison (2007) by Deborah Headstrom-Page, p. 22.
1800s

Success , Inspirational , Motivational , Wise

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”

Thomas Edison

As quoted in: [J. L.] Elkhorne. Edison — The Fabulous Drone, in 73 Vol. XLVI, No. 3 (March 1967) http://www.arimi.it/wp-content/73/03_March_1967.pdf, p. 52
Disputed

Motivational , Inspirational , Success , Life

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

Thomas Edison

As quoted in An Enemy Called Average (1990) by John L. Mason, p. 55.
Date unknown

Motivational , For Team , Attitude , Deep

“Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.”

Thomas Edison

As quoted in Thomas Alva Edison : Sixty Years of an Inventor's Life (1908) by Francis Arthur Jones, p. 14.
1900s

Motivational , Deep , Success , Inspirational