For most of my life I refused to work at any problem unless its solution seemed to be capable of being put to commercial use.

Thomas Edison

More information about this quote

Topic

Innovation Profit motive Capitalism

Speaker

Thomas Edison

Source

New York Sun

Medium

Interview Newspaper

Language

English

Time

1917 1910s 20th century

Occupation

Inventor Businessperson

From

United States

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Edison, Thomas Alva. Interview. New York Sun, Feb. 1917.

Illustrated Quote

A quote by Thomas Edison about innovation: “For most of my life I refused to work at any problem unless its…”
Download
A quote by Thomas Edison about innovation: “For most of my life I refused to work at any problem unless its…”
Download
A quote by Thomas Edison about innovation: “For most of my life I refused to work at any problem unless its…”
Download

Related Quotes

Below are one or more quotes that share at least one tag with the quote at the top of the page

Another quote from the 1910s

I want a girl just like the girl
That married dear old dad.

William Dillon

More information about this quote
Topic
Oedipal issues Mothers and sons

Author

William Dillon
Source
I Want a Girl
Medium
Song
Language
English
Time
1911 1910s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Dillon, William. I Want a Girl (Just Like the Girl That Married Dear Old Dad). Composed by Harry Von Tilzer. Harry Von Tilzer Music Pub. Co., 1911.

Another quote about Capitalism

Capitalism undoubtedly has certain boils and blotches upon it, but has it as many as government? Has it as many as marriage? Has it as many as religion? I doubt it. It is the only basic institution of modern man that shows any genuine health and vigor.

H.L. Mencken

More information about this quote
Topic
Capitalism

Author

H.L. Mencken
Language
English
Time
1928 1920s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Mencken, H. L. "Editorial." American Mercury, July 1928.

Another quote from 1917

If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success with it.

Sigmund Freud

More information about this quote
Topic
Effects of childhood Mothers and sons

Author

Sigmund Freud
Genre
Psychological literature
Language
German
Time
1917 1910s 20th century
Authentication Score 1
Original Citation

Freud, Sigmund. "Eine Kindheitserinnerung aus 'Dichtung und Wahrheit [A Childhood Recollection from 'Dichtung und Warheit [Poetry and Truth].'" Zeitschrift für Anwendung der Psychoanalyse auf die Geisteswissenschaften [Journal of the Application of Psychoanalysis to the Humanities]. Vol. 5, 1917, pp. 49–57.

Current Citation

Freud, Sigmund. "A Childhood Recollection from 'Dichtung Und Wahrheit.'" The Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud: An Infantile Neurosis and Other Works, translated by James Strachey. Vol. 17, Vintage, 2001.