Thomas Edison

What do we think about besides the light bulb when the name Thomas Edison pops up ?

He had light in a lot of other areas. He was a very smart and good man.

We toured his winter estate in Ft Myers last week while visiting Florida. If you get a chance to go you will not be disappointed, but will come away with more gratitude and understanding than when you began. I purchased a small green book  named “The Edison and Ford Quote Book” put out by the estates. Some quotes have been used many times by others, but there were many insightful ones I hadn’t heard before. He was a very forward thinker.

• “The greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is to try just one more time.”
• “All progress, all success springs from thinking.”
• “The brain can be developed just the same as the muscles can be developed, if one will only take the pains to train the mind to think, Why do so many men never amount to anything? Because they don’t think.”
• “Great ideas originate in the muscles.”
• “The world owes nothing to any man, but every man owes something to the world.”
• “My philosophy of life: work and look on the bright side of everything.”
• “I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it.”
• “Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.”
• “What you are will show in what you do.”
• “To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.”
• “The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.”

These are only a few I selected to share with you…good food for thought.

Tomorrow, we’ll hear some from Henry Ford’s mind.