I'm 67, but I'm not too old to make a fresh start. I've been through a lot of things like this. It prevents a man from being inflicted with ennui.
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Tesla Vs Edison: The Life-Long Feud that Electrified the World
All you got to do is stick to it and work like hell.
I've been in the inventor business for 33 years and my experience is that for every problem the Lord has made, He has also made a solution. If you and I can't find the solution, the let's honestly admit that you and I are damn fools but why blame it on the Lord and say He created something 'impossib…
Try everything. We've had a fine rest, now let's pitch into work again.
Hell, there ain't no rules around here! We're trying to accomplish something.
The joy of a new battle to wrest from nature more of her secrets.
I have never felt better in my life than during the 5 years I worked here. Hard work, nothing to divert my thoughts, clear air, simple food made life very pleasant.
It takes a deaf man to hear.
If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to the examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search.
Remember, nothing that's good works by itself just to please you. You've got to make the damn thing work.
The trouble with other inventors is that they try a few things and quit. I never quit until I get what I want.
I would construct a theory and work on its lines until I found it untenable, then it would be discarded and another theory evolved. This was the only possible way for me to work out the problem.
I have the right principle and am on the right track, but time, hard work, and some good luck are necessary too.
The trouble with telegraphic appliances is they can only be gotten out in the same way as the Irish pilot found the rocks in the harbor–with the bottom of his boat.
I have got so much to do and life is so short, I am going to hustle.
[Thomas Edison] would become very familiar with experimental failures, but as milestones along the road to successful inventions