I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing.
THOMAS EDISONI have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
More Thomas Edison Quotes
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Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.
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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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Having a vision for what you want is not enough. Vision without execution is hallucination.
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I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
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Friendship is the heaven of life.
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The perils of overwork are slight compared with the dangers of inactivity.
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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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The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
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What you are will show in what you do.
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Anything that won’t sell, I don’t want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
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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.
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When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.
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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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We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present.
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