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The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
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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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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His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
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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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I think work is the world's greatest fun.
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Most of my ideas belonged to other people who never bothered to develop them.
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Everyone steals in commerce and industry. I've stolen a lot, myself. But I know how to steal! They don't know how to steal!
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The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
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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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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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Work while others are wishing.
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I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.
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Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
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It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
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Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
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Failure is really a matter of conceit. People don't work hard because, in their conceit, they imagine they'll succeed without ever making an effort. Most people believe that they'll wake up some day and find themselves rich. Actually, they've got it half right, because eventually they do wake up.
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I never failed. It just didn't work 10,000 times.
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Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
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The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
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They were not failures, they were new found ways of what does not work I can accept failure,everyonefails at something. But I can't accept not trying
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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.
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