Everything I Learned About Entrepreneurialism I Learned From Thomas Edison
Its never been done that way before, Thomas. Oh how many times had he heard that before? Yet here he sat in his laboratory trying just one more time to perfect his idea.
Thomas, why not give up, your laboratory has burned down. Isnt that saying something? There they were again, constantly complaining. Yet he would rebuild and create something new then he kept creating, and in so many ways the world was never the same.
That creative mind was Thomas Alva Edison and he came to be known as The Wizard of Menlo Park. This entrepreneur was responsible for such inventions as the phonograph, light bulbs and electric power distribution among other things.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won’t work. Thomas A. Edison
Edison was a single father for a time and knew what it was like to provide for his family in difficult times. His first wife, Mary, died thirteen years after they married.
At the end of Edisons life he held more than 1,000 patents for various inventions and improvements he brought to the world. Some...