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

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