Genius is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration.
Genius is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration.
Similar Thomas Edison quotes:
Other Entrepreneurship :
- Most large organizations embrace the idea of invention but are not willing to suffer the string of failed experiments necessary to get there.
- Your lack of confidence is the number one reason why you’re not experiencing success.
- Computers are like a bicycle for the mind.
- Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
- A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.
- If you’re long―term oriented, customer interests and shareholder interests are aligned.
- One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.
- You can overcome your circumstances or you can let your circumstances overcome you.
- If something is important enough, even if the odds are against you, you should still do it.
- Disruption causes vast sums of money to flow from existing businesses and business models to new entrants.
- We can’t be in survival mode. We have to be in growth mode.
- Let’s go invent tomorrow rather than worrying about what happened yesterday.
- Our point of view is we will sell more if we help people make purchasing decisions.
- Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
- Nothing is worse to an organisation than culture of fear
- Picasso had a saying – ‘good artists copy, great artists steal‘ – and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.
- Building a startup is very much an endurance sport
- People who say you will fail are people who have never been successful in their lives
- The journey is the reward
- Customers don’t know what they want until we’ve shown them.