Thomas Edison

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

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninty-nine percent perspiration.

Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
- All from Thomas Alva Edison, 1847 - 1931

About: Thomas Alva Edison was born at Milan, Ohio on 11 Feb in 1847. Through hard work and tenacity (and endless self-promotion) he became the most prolific and successful inventor of his era. Although Edison grabbed a fair amount of credit for things that weren't his inventions (Nikolai Tesla was his most obvious victim), there is no doubt that he was responsible for the first electric incandescent light, not to mention the electrical utility business.