Thomas Edison on business
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
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Never Say I Failed 99 Times, Say I Discovered 99 Ways Which Causes Failure!
Thomas EdisonThomas Edison Vision without execution is delusion.
Thomas EdisonThomas Edison Accomplishing something provides the only real satisfaction in life.
Thomas EdisonThomas Edison The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.
Thomas EdisonThomas Edison There is no limit to which a man will not go to avoid thinking.
Thomas EdisonThomas Edison There is no limit to which a man will not go to avoid thinking.
Thomas EdisonThomas Edison Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.
Thomas EdisonThomas Edison You can’t realize your dreams unless you have one to begin with.
Thomas EdisonThomas Edison I never did a day’s work in my life, it was all fun.
Thomas EdisonThomas Edison What you are will show in what you do.
Thomas EdisonThomas Edison Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.
Thomas EdisonThomas Edison Nature is truly wonderful. Only man is truly foul.
Thomas EdisonThomas Edison When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.
Thomas EdisonThomas Edison A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job.
Thomas EdisonThomas Edison When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this – you haven’t.
Thomas EdisonThomas Edison Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.
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