There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
Sticking to it is the genius.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man’s character.
Great ideas originate in the muscles.
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Seeming to do is not doing.
Vision without execution is delusion.
You can’t realize your dreams unless you have one to begin with.
I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Seventy-five of us worked twenty hours every day and slept only four hours – and thrived on it.
The man who doesn’t make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasure in life.
Sleep is like a drug. Take too much at a time and it makes you dopey. You lose time and opportunities.
I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it.
We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.
I start where the last man left off.
A man’s best friend is a good wife.
Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.
I didn’t fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.
I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
It is remarkable to what lengths people will go to avoid thought.
All bibles are man-made.