“I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of…”

“I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. No, when I have, fully decided that a result is worth getting, I go about it, and make trial after trial, until it comes.”

— Thomas Edison

Verification

Attributed

Recorded by a reliable secondary source; exact wording may differ.

Imported from Wikiquote; not yet checked by QuoteQuest against the original source.

Source

Title: Wikiquote: Thomas Edison
Type: reference · Secondary source
Held by: Wikiquote

View source at Wikiquote

Context

Quoted by Theodore Dreiser in A Photographic Talk with Edison, Success magazine (February 1898)

Cite this source

Edison, Thomas. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Thomas Edison. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Edison

Check citations against your institution's style guide; some details may be missing.

Provenance: Wikiquote (CC BY-SA)