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To get a great idea, come up with lots of them.
Thomas A. Edison
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Thomas A. Edison
Age: 84 †
Born: 1847
Born: February 11
Died: 1931
Died: October 18
Businessperson
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Ohio
Thomas A. Edison
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Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
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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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As Danand Ian over at the Lifestyle Business Podcast say: Rush to failure.
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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 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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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work.
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Having a vision for what you want is not enough...Vision without execution is hallucination
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They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.
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For faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
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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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To my mind the old masters are not art their value is in their scarcity.
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My mother was the making of me. She was so true and so sure of me, I felt that I had someone to live for - someone I must not disappoint. The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
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