My principal business is to be a failure. I fail in a great many things. Every time I fail, I learn something. That is the way I succeed.
Light bulb, phonograph, inventor
My principal business is to be a failure. I fail in a great many things. Every time I fail, I learn something. That is the way I succeed.
Light bulb, phonograph, inventor
Reported in 'Edison's Views on the Hereafter,' New York Times
1910
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