Genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration.

I am a vegetarian as well as a passionate anti-alcoholic, because I can thus make better use of my brain.

I've realized that most of my best ideas have followed a good night's sleep.

Failure is the most effective technique to optimize strategic planning, implementation and processes.

Invention is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration

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

A teacher sent the following note home with a six-year-old boy 'He is too stupid to learn.' That boy was Thomas A. Edison.