Quotes of: Thomas-edison Keyword

I don't like Thomas Edison. I'm a fan of Nicolai Tesla.

David Lynch

I am the Thomas Edison of conversational stupidity.

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

Hotel Manager: I thought they might work for the government. Robert Angier: No? Hotel Manager: Worse. They work for Thomas Edison.

The Prestige

We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight.

Milton Berle

Innovation is the creation and delivery of new customer value in the marketplace.

Innovate Like Edison: The Success System of America's Greatest Inventor

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Lao Tzu

One of my other nicknames was Thomas Edison, because I invented so many moves.

Earl Monroe

Yes, my grandfather worked with Thomas Edison on the electric car, and he sold electric cars at the 1900 World's Fair in Paris.

Al Jardine

My principal professional objective is to introduce intelligence as the ubiquitous utility. I'd like to be the Thomas Edison of intelligence.

Michael J. Saylor

I was really proud that I was named after Thomas Edison and wanted to be called Edson. I thought Pele sounded horrible. It was a rubbish name. Edson sounded so much more serious and important.

Pele

Restlessness is discontent — and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man — and I will show you a failure.

Diary and Sundry Observations of Thomas Alva Edison

To me, Arnold was a pioneer in the spirit of Thomas Edison or Benjamin Franklin, while Tiger is a pioneer in the spirit of Bill Gates.

Mark McCormack

Bill Gates wants people to think he's Edison, when he's really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn't right... wealth isn't the same thing as intelligence.

Larry Ellison

When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.

George Carlin

Americans understand that one of our great national strengths is innovation. Great innovators - Benjamin Franklin, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and others - are household names.

Robert Hormats

Twas Thomas Edison did declare that waste is worse than loss yet never thought it fit to pare his first name to Tomás

John Alejandro King

Twas Thomas Edison did declare That waste is worse than loss Yet never once saw fit to pare His first name to Tomás

John Alejandro King

And it was at that point that I realized, in fact, our whole administration realized, that we could not rely on Metropolitan Edison for the kind of information we needed to make decisions.

William Scranton

What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

Stephen Leacock

You don't get drown by falling into a river. You get drown by remaining there. Falling accidentally and rising immediately was what distinguished Thomas Edison and Abraham Lincoln from the rest.

Israelmore Ayivor

Thomas Edison’s last words were ‘It’s very beautiful over there’. I don’t know where there is, but I believe it’s somewhere, and I hope it’s beautiful

John Green