Genius is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration.
Genius is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration.
Similar Thomas Edison quotes:
Other Entrepreneurship :
- Making a product is just an activity, making a profit on a product is the achievement.
- Speak less than you know; have more than you show.
- I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that don’t work.
- People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
- don’t wait for opportunity, create it
- My best ideas come in the shower, where I’m showered with water, but also ideas.
- Don’t simply dream, create. Don’t simply create, ship. Don’t simply ship, dream.
- A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.
- It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.
- Innovation is the ability to see the change as an opportunity; not a threat.
- Universal opinions are often mistaken for universal principles
- If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.
- The framework I found which made the decision incredibly easy was what I called – which only a nerd would call – a ‘regret minimization framework’.
- Don’t ask for permission, ask for forgiveness
- Eighty percent of success is showing up.
- Every day is day 1
- You know if you make a customer unhappy, they won’t tell five friends, they’ll tell 5,000 friends.
- The Greatest success stories are beautifully painful
- The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do.
- Premature success rarely lasts as long as delayed success.