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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
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Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
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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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If there is a better solution... find it.
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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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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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I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. No, when I have, fully decided that a result is worth getting, I go about it, and make trial after trial, until it comes.
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Radio is just a fashion contrivance that will soon die out. It is obvious that there never will be invented a proper receiver!
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The only thing I use my body for is to carry my brain around.
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The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.
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Having a vision for what you want is not enough...Vision without execution is hallucination
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Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! ... I've failed my way to success.
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The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
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If I could solve all the problems myself, I would.
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I am so deaf I am debarred from hearing all the time articulation and have to depend on the judgment of others.
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I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it
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