I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
Thomas A. EdisonThe only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
Thomas A. EdisonThe reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
Thomas A. EdisonIt is very different to make a practical system and to introduce it. A few experiments in the laboratory would prove the practicability of system long before it could be brought into general use. You can take a pipe and put a little coal in it, close it up, heat it and light the gas that comes out of the stem, but that is not introducing gas lighting. I'll bet that if it were discovered to-morrow in New York that gas could be made out of coal it would be at least five years before the system would be in general use.
Thomas A. Edison