Good ideas are 1% inspiration and 99% not being Nikola Tesla. by Thomas Edison

One of you built a lab and the other built a grudge. Guess which one paid better.

I turned electricity into a career. You turned it into a mood.

I did not lose the future. I licensed it.

You mean the guy who pays the bills and still loses the future?

That’s a fancy way to say you got beat by AC and kept tweeting about it for 40 years.

Bold from a man who turned a nickname into a business model.