Thomas A. Edison (1847-1931, American inventor, founder of GE) |
Self-Understanding |
| An idea is something that won't work unless you do.
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Business |
| Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
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Worry |
| As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
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Rating: 3.00
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Courage |
| Be courageous! Have faith! Go forward.
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Courage |
| Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!
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Rating: 5.00
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Discontent |
| Discontent is the first necessity of progress.
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Patience |
| Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
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Genius |
| Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
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Ideas |
| Great ideas originate in the muscles.
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Genius |
| His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
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Failure |
| I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
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Inventors and Inventions |
| I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
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Pleasure |
| I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
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Worry |
| I have always found, when I was worrying, that the best thing to do was put my mind upon something, work hard and forget what was troubling me.
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Friends and Friendship |
| I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
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Failure |
| I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
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Miracles |
| I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us -- everything that exists -- proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.
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Work |
| I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.
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Work |
| I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
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Education |
| I never was much for saving money, as money. I devoted every cent, regardless of future needs, to scientific books and materials for experiments.
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Excellence |
| I start where the last man left off.
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Possibility |
| If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves.
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Thoughts and Thinking |
| It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
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Failure |
| Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
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Perseverance |
| Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
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Maturity |
| Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.
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Perseverance |
| Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.
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Success |
| One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
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Opportunities |
| Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.
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Perseverance |
| Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
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Dissatisfaction |
| Relentlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.
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Progress |
| Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
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Results |
| Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
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Satisfaction |
| Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
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Solitude |
| The best thinking has been done in solitude.
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Body |
| The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.
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Mind |
| The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around
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Ability |
| The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
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Greatness |
| The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
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Life and Living |
| The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
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Ideas |
| The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
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Tries and Trying |
| There ain't no rules around here, we're trying to accomplish something.
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Methods |
| There is always a better way.
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Opportunities |
| There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
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Thoughts and Thinking |
| There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.
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Hard Work |
| There is no substitute for hard work.
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Time and Time Management |
| There is time for everything.
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Excellence |
| There's a way to do better... find it.
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Failure |
| They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.
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Ideas |
| To have a great idea, have a lot of them.
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Rating: 4.40
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