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 EDISONTo get a great idea, come up with lots of them.
More Thomas Edison Quotes
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Never Say I Failed 99 Times, Say I Discovered 99 Ways Which Causes Failure!
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Most of my ideas belonged to other people who never bothered to develop them.
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There is no substitute for hard work.
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We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.
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Nature is truly wonderful. Only man is truly foul.
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Success is based on imagination plus ambition and the will to work.
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I failed my way to success.
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Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
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I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it.
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You can’t realize your dreams unless you have one to begin with.
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Absorb ideas from every source.
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Consider data without prejudice.
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Nearly every person who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. That’s not the place to become discouraged.
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Success is the result of hard work.
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A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job.
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I never did a day’s work in my life, it was all fun.
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There seems to be no limit to which some men will go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thinking is hard work.
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Accomplishing something provides the only real satisfaction in life.
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I have better use for my brain than to poison it with alcohol. To put alcohol in the human brain is like putting sand in the bearings of an engine.
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The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.
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Genius is not inspired. Inspiration is perspiration.
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The secret of success is focus of purpose.
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Tomorrow Is My Exam But I Don’t Care Because A Single Sheet Of Paper Can’t Decide My Future.
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Great ideas originate in the muscles.
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Success depends on how many experiments you can fit into 24 hours.
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I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
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