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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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Film Director
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Milan
Ohio
Thomas A. Edison
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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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Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! ... I've failed my way to success.
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I never view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn't work.
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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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The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
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I consider Paine our greatest political thinker. As we have not advanced, and perhaps never shall advance, beyond the Declaration and Constitution, so Paine has had no successors who extended his principles.
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We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.
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Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.
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If there is a better solution... find it.
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I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it
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The real measure of success is the number of experiments that can be crowded into 24 hours.
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Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! Any other bright-minded fellow can accomplish just as much if he will stick like hell and remember nothing that's any good works by itself. You've got to make the damn thing work!...I failed my way to success.
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I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.
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Direct thought is not an attribute of feminity. In this, women are now centuries behind man.
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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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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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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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