4 Thomas Alva Edison Quotes on Work

Thomas Alva Edison quotes on work

19. Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

26. Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.

29. 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.

39. 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.