Successful People Who Failed At First – Thomas Edison

Thomas Alva Edison (1932)

Thomas Edison’s teachers told him he was “too stupid to learn anything.”

Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb.

Edison also famously invented 1,000 light bulbs before creating one that worked.

You can read more on Thomas Edison at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Edison