Thomas A. Edison Failure Quotations

Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.

A failure teaches you that something can't be done-that way.

I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Each time you fail, you have eliminated another wrong option.

Every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

I never view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn't work.

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

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