Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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The money one gets for selling one's soul is always spent in deadening one's conscience, so the net gain at the end of a lifetime is no greater than if the diabolic bargain had not been struck.
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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
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Success is 90% perspiration and 10% inspiration!
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I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention. It's their 'ideas' that appeal to me. I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor.
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People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project (Muscle Shoals Dam) nor contribute a pound of material, will collect more money from the United States than will the People who supply all the material and do all the work. This is the terrible thing about interest.
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I never did a day's work in my life, it was all fun.
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We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
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Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence.... Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.
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Success depends on how many experiments you can fit into 24 hours.
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An idea is something that won't work unless you do.
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To get a great idea, come up with lots of them.
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 foundations and individual donors whose priorities don't align with my organization's.
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I am much less interested in what is called God's word than in God's deeds. All bibles are man-made.
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I think work is the world's greatest fun.
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Remember, life is all what you focus on. Learn lessons and keep moving forward towards your goals and dreams... "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
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I start where the last man left off.
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Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
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To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction.
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I never quit until I get what I want.
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Be courageous! Have faith! Go forward.
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I believe that the motion picture is destined to revolutionize our educational system and that in a few years it will supplant largely, if not entirely, the use of textbooks.
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If the Nation can issue a dollar bond it can issue a dollar bill. The element that makes the bond good makes the bill good also. The difference between the bond and the bill is that the bond lets the money broker collect twice the amount of the bond and an additional 20%. Whereas the currency, the honest sort provided by the Constitution pays nobody but those who contribute in some useful way. It is absurd to say our Country can issue bonds and cannot issue currency. Both are promises to pay, but one fattens the usurer and the other helps the People.
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I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.
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Nature made us - nature did it all - not the gods of the religions.