Genius is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration.
Genius is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration.
Similar Thomas Edison quotes:
Other Entrepreneurship :
- Trustworthy is earned not bought.
- One of the biggest mistakes we made was trying to automate things that are super easy for a person to do, but super hard for a robot to do.
- In the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service and 70% of your time to shouting about it. In the new world, that inverts.
- When you were making excuses someone else was making enterprise.
- Today I will work for tomorrow’s success.
- Creating anything that never existed before is not sanity.
- You get paid in direct proportion to the difficulty of problems you solve.
- No business can continue to shrink. That can only go on for so long before irrelevancy sets in.
- I’m as proud of many of the things we haven’t done as the things we have done. Innovation is saying no to a thousand things.
- I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
- Entrepreneurship is a medley of everything old to create something new.
- You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.
- Wisdom is hard to get but hardest to lose if once obtained.
- We have essentially no patents in SpaceX. If we published patents, it would be farcical, because the Chinese would just use them as a recipe book.
- If there was a way that I could not eat, so I could work more, I would not eat. I wish there was a way to get nutrients without sitting down for a meal.
- Entrepreneurship should be a viable career path not just a last resort to joblessness.
- It’s very important to like the people you work with, otherwise life [and] your job is gonna be quite miserable.
- I’m a big fan of all-you-can-eat plans, because they’re simpler for customers.
- One life is enough to change this world
- How you spend your time is more important than how much you have.