Edison

"Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless."
—Thomas A. Edison

"If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward."
—Thomas Edison

"I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill."
—Thomas Edison

"There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking."
—Thomas Edison

"The value of an idea lies in the using of it."
—Thomas Edison

"To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity."
—Thomas Edison

"Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have."
—Thomas Edison

"One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success."

—Thomas Edison