„A zseni egy százalék ihlet és kilencvenkilenc százalék izzadság.”
Eredeti
Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Spoken statement (c. 1903); published in Harper's Monthly (September 1932).
Variants:
None of my inventions came by accident. I see a worthwhile need to be met and I make trial after trial until it comes. What it boils down to is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Statement in a press conference (1929), as quoted in Uncommon Friends: Life with Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, Alexis Carrel & Charles Lindbergh (1987) by James D. Newton, p. 24.
Variant forms without early citation: "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework."
"Genius: one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration."
1900s
Változat: Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety nine perspiration.
Témakörök
százalékThomas Alva Edison 35
amerikai elektrotechnikus, üzletember, feltaláló 1847–1931Hasonló idézetek

„Nem tudunk egy milliárdni százalékot sem semmitről.”

„A siker nyolcvan százaléka a megjelenésben rejlik.”

„Anyós: Te, Géza!? Tudod mi az ötvenegy és fél százalék? A tanácselnök meg az Anyja. Ö még fél.”

Eredeti: Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
Híresebb idézetei

Manager Magazin interjú, 2007. január
Idézetek, 2007
Forrás: http://www.managermagazin.hu/magazin.php?page=article&id=728