Invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.
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 per cent perspiration.
Genius is not inspired. Inspiration is perspiration.
If I could solve all the problems myself, I would.
Success is 90% perspiration and 10% inspiration!
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.
Invention is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
I have determined that there is no market for talking pictures
Genius defined: of inspiration 1% percent, of perspiration, 99%.
When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability.... We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it
I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.
I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
Genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration.
We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.
I start where the last man left off.
Inspiration can be found in a pile of junk. Sometimes, you can put it together with a good imagination and invent something.
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing....
Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
Discontent is the first necessity of progress.
I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.
No, I haven't failed thousands of times. On the contrary, I have successfully eliminated thousands of ideas that do not work!
I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.
There is a better way for everything. Find it.
Genius is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. As a result, a genius is often a talented person who has simply done all of his homework.
If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.
Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.