if anyone knows anything more about it please do tell me User talk:Arsalanahmedmalik The first quote "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." is one my favourite quote. There is a similar quote attributed (possibly incorrectly) to George Bernard Shaw using 2, 3 and 95 percent. (now a National Park open to the public.)īecause of Edison's association with this quote, it is often falsely attributed to him. 1921) to spur employee productivity and creativity throughout the Edison factory in West Orange, N.J. "There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking." "Why do so many men never amount to anything? Because they don't think." Įdison was also very fond of the quote by Sir Joshua Reynolds: "All progress, all success springs from thinking." It's possible (speculation ahead) that quotes from that interview were mixed up with the quote under discussion because they were simply printed near each other at some point. Edison made some comments about thinking and success in this 1921 interview. I see that it's attributed to Edison by 1927, but I don't see any specific source, so it's probably a mistake. I find "the majority of us would rather lie down and die than think" back to 1901. Woods Hutchinson may have come up with it, based on similar earlier quotes. He writes, "The answer is given by the cynic who said that five percent of the people think ten percent, think they think and eighty-five percent would rather die than think." I can't make any definite attribution for this one. 476, this time without the words "lie down and". The following year, there's another attribution to a "cynic" in The New Capitalism by Simon Baldus, p. 40): "Some cynic declares that 5 per cent of people think, 10 per cent think they think, while 85 per cent would rather lie down and die than think." That's were he said," Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." Why hate on him? He changed our lives(somehow). ArtDent 15:49, 23 November 2011 (UTC) I find the quote as far back as 1922, in an article in the May 13 Saturday Evening Post, "Balanced Work", by Woods Hutchinson, ( p. There's a similar quote by Bertrand Russell (found on ), which could be just a coincidence or a hint of the quote's misattribution. So far, I'm unable to find attribution or cite. What about “Five percent of the people think ten percent of the people think they think and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.” - widely attributed to Edison (widely found online, too), but not listed here either as his or misattributed or misquoted. I don't find any credible evidence that Edison ever used the phrase, with either "vision" or "ideas". He quotes Stephen Case, then Chairman & CEO of America Online, as saying, "In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably an hallucination." The phrase starts getting credited to Edison around 2006. The earliest that I find a similar phrase is Chapter 5 ("A Vision Without Execution Is an Hallucination") of Jeffrey E. Until we can figure out from whence this came. Is this a quote from Thomas Edison? I've heard it is, though it is not listed here: "Ideas without execution are hallucinations."
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