Thomas Edison on Innovation
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.
The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
- Thomas Edison, American inventor
- September 2, 2008
- Introduction to Entrepreneurship