A Quote by Thomas A. Edison

Never Say I Failed 99 Times, Say I Discovered 99 Ways Which Causes Failure!

Thomas A. Edison

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Thomas A. Edison
American - Inventor
February 11, 1847 - October 18, 1931

I will not say I failed 1000 times, I will say that I discovered there are 1000 ways that can cause failure

Thomas A. Edison

I never once failed at making a light bulb. I just found out 99 ways not to make one.

Thomas A. Edison

When I say the economy is shrinking, it's the economy of the 99%, the people who have to work for a living and depend on earning money for what they can spend. The 1% makes its money basically by lending out their money to the 99%, on charging interest and speculating. So the stock market's doubled, the bond market's gone way up, and the 1% are earning more money than ever before, but the 99% are not. They're having to pay the 1%.

Michael Hudson

I have tried 99 times and have failed, but on the 100th time came success.

Albert Einstein

99.99 percent of all species that have ever lived are no longer with us.

Bill Bryson

99.99% of your creation is complete before you see ANY physical evidence of it.

Esther Hicks

99.99% of all castles in America are located in fish tanks.

Demetri Martin

If a plane crashes and 99 people die while 1 survives, it is called a miracle. Should the families of the 99 think so?

Judith Hayes

Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.

Soichiro Honda

I'm sensitive about the criticism [for not producing new playwrights], yes. But I'm hip to it as well. I read 500 new plays a year, and 99.99 percent of them are not good. I see no reason to do a new play just because it's new. It's like kissing your sister, a virtue, but so what? It seems to me more worthwhile to take a proven playwright and say, Write something for us.

Gregory A. Boyd

When I get really down, I remember that we all share 99.99 per cent of our DNA with Beyonce. And suddenly, the world doesn't seem too bleak.

John Tiffany

The devaluation of music and what it's now deemed to be worth is laughable to me. My single costs 99 cents. That's what a single cost in 1960. On my phone, I can get an app for 99 cents that makes fart noises - the same price as the thing I create and speak to the world with. Some would say the fart app is more important. It's an awkward time. Creative brains are being sorely mistreated.

Vince Gill

An anonymous person, which is 99 percent of the people on Twitter, can say my face looks like a foot or I'm Ted Cruz's doppelganger. That doesn't affect me.