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

Similar Thomas Edison quotes:
Other Entrepreneurship :
- Remain self-funded as long as possible.
- Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
- What we need to do is always lean into the future; you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn’t a strategy.
- The common question that gets asked in business is, ‘why?’ That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, ‘why not?’
- Knowledge without action is meaningless.
- Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
- Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
- I’m not trying to be anyone’s savior. I’m just trying to think about the future and not be sad.
- When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars, people said, ‘Nah, what’s wrong with a horse?’ That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.
- Truth is the greatest marketing campaign.
- Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.
- As much as possible, avoid hiring MBAs. MBA programs don’t teach people how to create companies.
- Commitment is a continuous effort.
- Entrepreneur, don’t just read history, write it so people can see the future in the present.
- Without struggle, success has no value.
- There is no try. There is only do.
- Do not focus on problems; focus on solutions!
- You get paid in direct proportion to the difficulty of problems you solve.
- In life, you get what you believe you deserve.
- I take the position that I’m always to some degree wrong, and the aspiration is to be less wrong.