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Thomas A Edison Inspirational Quotes (217)

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The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.
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It is a terrible situation when the Government, to insure the National Wealth, must go in debt and submit to ruinous interest charges, at the hands of men, who control the fictitious value of gold. Interest is the invention of Satan.
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From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
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Direct thought is not an attribute of feminity. In this, women are now centuries behind man.
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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work.
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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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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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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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Nothing that's good works by itself, you've got to make the damn thing work.
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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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There is always a better way.
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Accomplishing something provides the only real satisfaction in life.
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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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Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
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A teacher sent the following note home with a six-year-old boy 'He is too stupid to learn.' That boy was Thomas A. Edison.
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They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.
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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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An idea is something that won't work unless you do.
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The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
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The value of a good idea is in using it.
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Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
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Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! ... I've failed my way to success.
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The beauty of a great idea lies in the art of using it.
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If I had not had so much ambition and not tried to do so many things, I probably would have been happier, but less useful.
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