One of the greatest inventors to ever live the earth. Who better than to take some words of wisdom from? Check out these quotes he has left us with:

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

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

I never did a day’s work in my life. It was all fun.

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

We don’t know a millionth of one percent about anything.

There’s a way to do it better – find it.

There is no substitute for hard work.

The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That’s not the place to become discouraged.

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.

There you have it, a lot of quotes from one of the greatest inventors that ever lived.