My principal business is to be a failure. I fail in a great many things. Every time I fail, I learn something. That is the way I succeed.
Light bulb, phonograph, inventor
Reported in 'Edison's Views on the Hereafter,' New York Times
1910
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"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."
Humorous"I have more respect for the man who is trying to get somewhere than for the man who has gotten somewhere and is resting on his laurels."
Controversial"I have friends in the other world. I have had very pleasant conversations with them. I am rather unorthodox in this matter. I believe that they are still alive and that we can communicate with them."
Controversial"The phonograph is not of any commercial value."
Controversial"I don't think there is any such thing as an immortal soul. I think that the soul is just a function of the brain, and when the brain dies, the soul dies."
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