Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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The trouble with most people is that they quit before they start.
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Vision without execution is delusion.
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I would rather have one man with enthusiasm working with me than ten who are complacent.
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The man who doesn’t make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasure in life.
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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
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The greatest discoveries will be along spiritual lines. This is the field where miracles are going to happen. Spiritual power is the greatest underdeveloped power and has the greatest future.
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Each time you fail, you have eliminated another wrong option.
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To have a great idea, have a lot of them.
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My main purpose in life is to make enough money to create ever more inventions…. The dove is my emblem…. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it…. I am proud of the fact that I have never invented weapons to kill….
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The First 40 hours of work per week are for survival. Everything after that is for success.
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Genius defined: of inspiration 1% percent, of perspiration, 99%.
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Youth doesn't take advice.
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The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.
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I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.
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You can't realize your dreams unless you have one to begin with.
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To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful .
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Do the thing and the power will come.
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I can accept failure,everyonefails at something. But I can't accept not trying
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Education isn't play--and it can't be made to look like play. It is hard, hard work. But it can be made interesting work.
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My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
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Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward.
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There is time for everything.
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Two per cent. is genius, and ninety-eight per cent. is hard work.
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There cannot be overproduction of anything which men and women want. And their wants are unlimited, except by the size of their stomachs.