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I failed my way to success.
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 man who doesn’t make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasure in life.
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Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.
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When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.
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To have a great idea, have a lot of them.
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The money one gets for selling one's soul is always spent in deadening one's conscience, so the net gain at the end of a lifetime is no greater than if the diabolic bargain had not been struck.
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I never failed. It just didn't work 10,000 times.
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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
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I didn’t fail ten thousand times. I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times, materials and combinations which wouldn’t work.
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I think work is the world's greatest fun.
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I have better use for my brain than to poison it with alcohol. To put alcohol in the human brain is like putting sand in the bearings of an engine.
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I will not say I failed 1000 times, I will say that I discovered there are 1000 ways that can cause failure
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Focus on how the end-user customers perceive the impact of your innovation - rather than on how you, the innovators, perceive it.
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People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project (Muscle Shoals Dam) nor contribute a pound of material, will collect more money from the United States than will the People who supply all the material and do all the work. This is the terrible thing about interest.
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To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction.
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The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
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There is always a better way.
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The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.
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The beauty of a great idea lies in the art of using it.
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Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.
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I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.
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