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Success is the result of hard work.
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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Focus on how the end-user customers perceive the impact of your innovation - rather than on how you, the innovators, perceive it.
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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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When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.
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None of my inventions came by accident. I see a worthwhile need to be met and I make trial after trial until it comes. What it boils down to is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
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When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.
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Let the public throw bouquets to the inventors and in time we will all be happy.
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Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.
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