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From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.

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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Fish seem to be rather conservative around this bay, one seldom catches enough to form the fundamental basis for a lie. Dante left out one of the torments of Hades — I could imagine a doomed mortal made to untangle wet fish lines forever. Everybody lost patience at the stupidity of the fish in not coming forward promptly to be murdered.
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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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I start where the last man left off. What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of a man can achieve.
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They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.
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If I could solve all the problems myself, I would.
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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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Most of my ideas belonged to other people who never bothered to develop them.
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 foundations and individual donors whose priorities don't align with my organization's.
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Show me a completely contented person and I'll show you a failure.
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There cannot be overproduction of anything which men and women want. And their wants are unlimited, except by the size of their stomachs.
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As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.
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Mr. Edison worked endlessly on a problem, using the method of elimination. If a person asked him if he were discouraged because so many attempts proved unavailing, he would say, No, I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward..
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Failure is really a matter of conceit. People don't work hard because, in their conceit, they imagine they'll succeed without ever making an effort. Most people believe that they'll wake up some day and find themselves rich. Actually, they've got it half right, because eventually they do wake up.
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