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I never failed. It just didn't work 10,000 times.
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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I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention. It's their 'ideas' that appeal to me. I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor
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Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you're working on.
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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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I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.
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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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They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.
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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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Invention is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration
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It is a terrible situation when the Government, to insure the National Wealth, must go in debt and submit to ruinous interest charges, at the hands of men, who control the fictitious value of gold. Interest is the invention of Satan.
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Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
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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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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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When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.
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To get a great idea, come up with lots of them.
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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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The biggest failure of man is that he gives up before he realizes how close he was to success.
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I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
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It is apparent to me that the possibilities of the aeroplane, which two or three years ago were thought to hold the solution to the [flying machine] problem, have been exhausted, and that we must turn elsewhere.
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This problem, once solved, will be simple.
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I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it
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