I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.

Similar Thomas Edison quotes:
Other Entrepreneurship :
- If you don’t appreciate your customers, someone else will.
- If everything is a priority, nothing is.
- Being busy doesn’t mean being productive.
- If you’re good at course correcting, being wrong may be less costly than you think. Whereas being slow is going to be expensive for sure.
- 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.
- We are really competing against ourselves, we have no control over how other people perform.
- Fly, if you are tired of walking.
- I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure which is, Try to please everybody.
- No, we don’t know where it will lead. We just know there’s something much bigger than any of us here.
- Smart people are a dime a dozen and often don’t amount to much. What counts is being creative and imaginative.
- I take the position that I’m always to some degree wrong, and the aspiration is to be less wrong.
- Be bold. Take risks. Get noticed.
- The common question that gets asked in business is, ‘why?’ That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is ‘why not?’.
- When you think of quitting, remember why you started!
- No one needs to light a fire under you when there’s a fire in you.
- A disadvantage is often a seed of an advantage.
- Every day is day 1
- Happy people produce. Bored people consume.
- An entrepreneur is someone who can make enough money to pay for their mistakes.
- 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.