I get my ideas from listening from within.

My success is due more to my ability to work continuously on one thing without stopping than to any other single quality.

People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project (Muscle Shoals Dam) nor contribute a pound of material, will collect more money from the United States than will the People who supply all the material and do all the work. This is the terrible thing about interest.

I have determined that there is no market for talking pictures

I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.

After we had conducted thousands of experiments on a certain project without solving the problem, one of my associates, after we had conducted the crowning experiment and it had proved a failure, expressed discouragement and disgust over our having failed to find out anything. I cheerily assured him that we had learned something. For we had learned for a certainty that the thing couldnt be done that way, and that we would have to try some other way.

I've never made a mistake. I've only learned from experience.