Who is often credited with saying, "Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits"?

“Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits” was published in the book "Thomas Alva Edison: Sixty Years of an Inventor’s Life" (1907). This quote is now often credited to American inventor Thomas Edison (1847-1931).

Thomas Edison's wise quote brings life to anyone who has experienced frustrations due to missed opportunities. We are told by some observers that this is about people who find themselves to be "unlucky", about those who never seems to get a break, or the one person who seems to stay in the same rut time and time again. These are all examples of people who fail to hustle while they wait. Edison's timeless quote contains within it two crucial words that we should pay close attention to...wait and hustle.

Edison is considered the archetypal inventor and epitomizes the American spirit of inquiry and entrepreneurship. He was a shrewd businessman with unbridled imagination; he is credited with thousands of inventions, including the phonograph, the electric light bulb, the telephone (although Alexander Graham Bell made it to the patent office first on that occasion), the movie camera, the microphone, and alkaline batteries.