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Having a vision for what you want is not enough...Vision without execution is hallucination
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 greatest discoveries will be along spiritual lines. This is the field where miracles are going to happen. Spiritual power is the greatest underdeveloped power and has the greatest future.
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People are not remembered by how few times they fail, but by how often they succeed. Every wrong step is another step forward
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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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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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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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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
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I am a vegetarian as well as a passionate anti-alcoholic, because I can thus make better use of my brain.
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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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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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The beauty of a great idea lies in the art of using it.
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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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Of the 200 light bulbs that didn't work, every failure told me something that I was able to incorporate into the next attempt.
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