I find out what the world needs. Then, I go ahead and invent it.
In plain words
He looked for what people needed, then went and built it.
Where these words come from
- 45% sureLots of sources credit Thomas Edison with this, and they agree with each other. The book or the speech it first came from hasn't turned up yet.
- Wikiquote-sourced only to a 1999 posthumous quote compilation (American Greats, ed. Robert A. Wilson & Stanley Marcus, p. 70); no primary interview or work located, held at likely.
