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Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas A. Edison
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Thomas A. Edison
Age: 84 †
Born: 1847
Born: February 11
Died: 1931
Died: October 18
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The perils of overwork are slight compared with the dangers of inactivity.
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Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge. Remedies from chemicals will never stand in favor compared with the products of nature, the living cell of the plant, the final result of the rays of the sun, the mother of all life.
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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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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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His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
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If I could solve all the problems myself, I would.
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Never Say I Failed 99 Times, Say I Discovered 99 Ways Which Causes Failure!
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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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They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.
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The trouble with most people is that they quit before they start.
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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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I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
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Having a vision for what you want is not enough...Vision without execution is hallucination
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It is apparent to me that the possibilities of the aeroplane, which two or three years ago were thought to hold the solution to the [flying machine] problem, have been exhausted, and that we must turn elsewhere.
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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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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 never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. No, when I have, fully decided that a result is worth getting, I go about it, and make trial after trial, until it comes.
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I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it
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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
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