Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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Success is 90% perspiration and 10% inspiration!
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I never failed. It just didn't work 10,000 times.
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Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you're working on.
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A failure teaches you that something can't be done-that way.
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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... 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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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
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I think work is the world's greatest fun.
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The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
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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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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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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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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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I never did a day's work in my life, it was all fun.
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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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I start where the last man left off.
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An idea is something that won't work unless you do.
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Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
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I never quit until I get what I want.
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Results? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results! If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
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My mother was the making of me. She was so true and so sure of me, I felt that I had someone to live for - someone I must not disappoint. The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
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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 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.