Thomas Edison is a classic example of how attitude relates to work. While being questioned by a young reporter about an invention he had been working on for along time, he revealed one of the secrets of this greatness. The your reporter asked, “Mr. Edison, how does it feel to have failed 10,000 times in your present venture?” Edison replied, “Young man, since you are just getting started in life, I will give you a thought that should benefit you in the future. I have not failed anything 10,000 times. I have successfully found 10,000 ways that will not work.”
Edison estimated that he actually performed over 14,000 experiments in the process of inventing and perfecting the incandescent light. He successfully found a lot of ways that wouldn’t work, but he kept at it until he found a way that would. He proved that the only differences between the big shot and the little shot is the big shot is simply a little shot who kept shooting.
Never think that God’s denial. Hold on; hold fast; hold out; Patience is genius.
– George Louis Comte de Buffon
