名人金句大師輕鬆讀

大多數人都錯過了機會，因為機會穿著一件工作褲，看起來就像是工作。

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

愛迪生 Thomas Edison
NO.759 現代房地產致富策略

衡量成功的真正標準是24 小時內可以擠進的實驗次數。

The real measure of success is the number of experiments that can be crowded into twenty-four hours.

愛迪生 Thomas Edison
NO.622 同儕企業

失敗為成功之母。

Failure is success in progress.

愛迪生 Thomas Edison
NO.620 科氏MBM管理哲學

我發現那些上過大學的人，無知的程度令人驚訝，好像什麼都不懂。

Men who have gone to college I find amazingly ignorant. They don't seem to know anything.

愛迪生 Thomas Edison
NO.268 請愛迪生當創意總監

我從不發明自己賣不出去的東西。

I never want to invent anything I can't sell.

愛迪生 Thomas Edison
NO.17 創新，就要這樣！

我樂於從所有來源吸收構想，通常是從上一個人放棄的地方開始。

I readily absorb ideas from every source, frequently starting where the last person left off.

愛迪生 Thomas Edison
NO.357 借來的最創意

構想被利用才有價值。

The value of an idea lies in the using of it.

愛迪生 Thomas Edison
NO.268 請愛迪生當創意總監

我不想發明不會賣的東西，會賣才證明商品的效用，而效用則代表了成功。

Anything that won't sell I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.

愛迪生 Thomas Edison
NO.268 請愛迪生當創意總監

當別人都已放棄時，我就會著手去做。

I start where the last man left off.

愛迪生 Thomas Edison
NO.268 請愛迪生當創意總監

最精采的想法都是單打獨鬥想出來的，最糟糕的想法則是混亂中產生的。

The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.

愛迪生 Thomas Edison
NO.268 請愛迪生當創意總監

人為了不必費力思考，任何取巧方法都不會放過。

There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.

愛迪生 Thomas Edison
NO.268 請愛迪生當創意總監

如果真能做到一切能力所及的事，我們鐵定會對自己大感訝異。

If we did all the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.

愛迪生 Thomas Edison
NO.268 請愛迪生當創意總監

令人訝異的是，讓頭腦有條不紊地運作，對許多人而言竟然是件辛苦的事。

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitively and systematically to work.

愛迪生 Thomas Edison
NO.268 請愛迪生當創意總監

要想出絕佳構想，就先想出一大堆構想。

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

愛迪生 Thomas Edison
NO.268 請愛迪生當創意總監

天才是1%的天分加上99%的努力。

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

愛迪生 Thomas Edison
NO.268 請愛迪生當創意總監

要發明，除了要具備良好的想像力，還需要一堆破銅爛鐵。

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

愛迪生 Thomas Edison
NO.268 請愛迪生當創意總監

我們最大的弱點就是輕言放棄，追求成功最有效的方法，就是永遠再多試一下。

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try one more time.

愛迪生 Thomas Edison
NO.268 請愛迪生當創意總監

保持領先的唯一方法就是實驗，你不做，其他人也會做。沒有實驗就不會進步；停止實驗就會退步。

The only way to keep ahead of the procession is to experiment. If you don’t, the other fellow will. When there’s no experimentation, there’s no progress. Stop experimenting and you go backward.

愛迪生 Thomas Edison
NO.268 請愛迪生當創意總監