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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.
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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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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Inspiration can be found in a pile of junk. Sometimes, you can put it together with a good imagination and invent something.
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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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Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
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Results? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results! If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
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It is the best book ever written on the subject. There is nothing like it!
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I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident. . . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.
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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 secret of success is focus of purpose.
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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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Two per cent. is genius, and ninety-eight per cent. is hard work.
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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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I have always consistently opposed high-tension and alternating systems of electric lighting...not only on account of danger, but because of their general unreliability and unsuitability for any general system of distribution.
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The only thing I use my body for is to carry my brain around.
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The endeavor to change universal power by selfish supplication I do not believe in.
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Absorb ideas from every source.
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I would rather have one man with enthusiasm working with me than ten who are complacent.
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I was at the foot of my class.
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The perils of overwork are slight compared with the dangers of inactivity.
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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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