Genius is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration.
Genius is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration.

Similar Thomas Edison quotes:
Other Entrepreneurship :
- Don’t wait to be compelled to do great work.
- Go as far as you can see and you will see further.
- Build systems for the business to come, not the business you have.
- We are really competing against ourselves, we have no control over how other people perform.
- If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.
- Premature success rarely lasts as long as delayed success.
- Failure implies a failed day not a failed life.
- I always advise people – Don’t wait! Do something when you are young, when you have nothing to lose, and keep that in mind.
- You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.
- In order to get what you want, you need to know what you want.
- Success doesn’t come to you; you go to it.
- 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.
- Creativity is just connecting things.
- Fall down 7 times, stand up 8
- The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.
- Creators always have an advantage because they make the stuff we consume.
- (It is not good to) weigh too much on someone’s talent and not someone’s personality. I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.
- If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend six hours sharpening my axe.
- Risk is a necessary component of success.
- For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.