Thomas A. Edison
American Inventor and Businessman
Date of Birth | : | 11 Feb, 1847 |
Date of Death | : | 18 Oct, 1931 |
Place of Birth | : | Milan, Ohio, United States |
Profession | : | Businessman, Inventor |
Nationality | : | American |
Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures.
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Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can't afford to lose.
I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.
The world owes nothing to any man, but every man owes something to the world.
I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.
Failure is the most effective technique to optimize strategic planning, implementation and processes.
The First 40 hours of work per week are for survival. Everything after that is for success.
There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Thank God we can start a new.
The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.