Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
Thomas A. EdisonI am more of a sponge than an inventor. I absorb ideas from every source. I take half-matured schemes for mechanical development and make them practical. I am a sort of a middleman between the long-haired and impractical inventor and the hard-headed business man who measures all things in terms of dollars and cents. My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant but misdirected ideas of others.
Thomas A. EdisonTime is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can't afford to lose.
Thomas A. Edison