Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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Sticking to it is the genius.
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None of my inventions came by accident. I see a worthwhile need to be met and I make trial after trial until it comes. What it boils down to is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
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The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
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A man’s best friend is a good wife.
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The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child.
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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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What is a college? An institute of learning. What is a business? An institute of learning. Life, itself, is an institute of learning.
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I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Seventy-five of us worked twenty hours every day and slept only four hours - and thrived on it.
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Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.
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I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process.
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Continued innovation is the best way to beat the competition.
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If I could solve all the problems myself, I would.
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The brain can be developed just the same as the muscles can be developed, if on will only take the pains to train the mind to think.
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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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Today, I am wondering what would have happened to me by now, if, fifty years ago, some fluent talker had converted me to the theory of the eight-hour day and convinced me that it was not fair to my fellow-workers to put forth my best efforts in my work? I am glad that the eight-hour day had not been invented when I was a young man. If my life had been made up of eight-hour days, I don't believe I could have accomplished a great deal.
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Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.
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There is always a better way.
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I never failed. It just didn't work 10,000 times.
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A lawsuit is the suicide of time.
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What a man's mind can create, man's character can control.
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Tomorrow Is My Exam But I Don’t Care Because A Single Sheet Of Paper Can’t Decide My Future.
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The world owes nothing to any man, but every man owes something to the world.
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Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
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I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.