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The trouble with most people is that they quit before they start.
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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When there's no experimenting there's no progress. Stop experimenting and you go backward. If anything goes wrong, experiment until you get to the very bottom of the trouble.
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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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I never view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn't work.
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I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.
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I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.
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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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Success is the product of the severest kind of mental and physical application.
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Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.
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Large portions of life's disappointments are individuals who did not understand that they were so near achievement when they surrendered.
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The world owes nothing to any man, but every man owes something to the world.
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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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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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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure.
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Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.
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This problem, once solved, will be simple.
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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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I never did a day's work in my life, it was all fun.
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When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.
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I believe in the existence of a Supreme Intelligence pervading the Universe.
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The doctor of the future will give no medication, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet and in the cause and prevention of disease. ~
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