Thomas Alva Edison Quotes on Work
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Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
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Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
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I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Seventy-five of us worked twenty hours every day and slept only four hours - and thrived on it.
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If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. ... I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety percent of his labor.