Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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I have had a lot of success with failure
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There's a way to do it better - find it.
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I think that Ingersoll had all the attributes of a perfect man, and, in my opinion, no finer personality ever existed. Judging from the past, I cannot help thinking that the intention of the Supreme Intelligence that rules the world is to ultimately make such a type of man universal.
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To those searching for truth -- not the truth of dogma and darkness but the truth brought by reason, search, examination, and inquiry, discipline is required. For faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction -- faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
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The very first thing an executive must have is a fine memory. Of course it does not follow that a man with a fine memory is necessarily a fine executive. But if he has the memory he has the first qualification, and if he has not the memory nothing else matters.
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The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.
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We are striking it big in the electric light, better than my vivid imagination first conceived. Where this thing is going to stop Lord only knows.
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I never once failed at making a light bulb. I just found out 99 ways not to make one.
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We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature's inexhaustible sources of energy - sun, wind and tide. ... I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.
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My mother was the making of me.
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To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
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Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! ... I've failed my way to success.
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My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
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The injurious agent in cigarettes comes principally from the burning paper wrapper. The substance thereby formed is called "acrolein." It has a violent action on the nerve centers, producing degeneration of the cells of the brain, which is quite rapid among boys. Unlike most narcotics, this degeneration is permanent and uncontrollable. I employ no person who smokes cigarettes.
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A lawsuit is the suicide of time.
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What you are will show in what you do.
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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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There is much more opportunity than there are people to see it.
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I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.
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When you become quiet, it just dawns on you.
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As Danand Ian over at the Lifestyle Business Podcast say: Rush to failure.
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I was always afraid of things that worked the first time. Long experience proved that there were great drawbacks found generally before they could be got commercial; but here was something there was no doubt of.
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I never knew I had an inventive talent until Phrenology told me so. I was a stranger to myself until then!
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The strength of the Constitution, lies in the will of the people to defend it.