A Quote by Thomas A. Edison

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Thomas A. Edison

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Failure Work Failed Found Just Ways

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

Remember, life is all what you focus on. Learn lessons and keep moving forward towards your goals and dreams... "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

Thomas A. Edison

I have not failed 10,000 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 10,000 ways will not work.

Thomas A. Edison

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 foundations and individual donors whose priorities don't align with my organization's.

Thomas A. Edison

I never failed. It just didn't work 10,000 times.

Thomas A. Edison

Results? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results! If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.

Thomas A. Edison

I have a lot of difficulty in a business culture that is only interested in making money. I can't see the point. What's the point of spending £10,000 just to make £20,000? Why not just keep the £10,000?

Peter Saville

I've always felt that, when I looked at my tombstone, it shouldn't say, 'Mehmet Oz banged out 10,000 open-heart operations.' I've probably done 5,000. Am I any better at it than 10,000? He shook his head. It's just a different number on the tombstone.

Mehmet Oz

The air in a man's lungs 10,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000 atoms, so that sooner or later every one of us breathes an atom that has been breathed before by anyone you can think of who has ever lived - Michelangelo or George Washington or Moses.

Jacob Bronowski

I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.

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

I just went through my childhood attic with my sister. I'm not an expert, and I don't mean to put myself in that category, but thinking about Malcolm Gladwell and the 10,000 hours, I was like, Here are my 10,000 hours!

Zoe Kazan

Obama says he's bringing 10,000 troops home. The Republicans are calling it a failed jobs program.

Christopher Titus

Before I was paralyzed, there were 10,000 things I could do; now there are 9,000. I can either dwell on the 1,000 I've lost or focus on the 9,000 I have left.

W Mitchell

In Illinois, where legislators are paid $45,000, plus as much as $10,000 for leadership work, about half are full-time politicians.

Bill Dedman

We look in... Germany for a superstar. We began with 10,000 people, which applied. From these 10,000, 100 was selected. The jury is unbelievably competent.