Thomas Edison on business
“If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
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Before you reject an idea, find at least five good things about it.
Thomas EdisonThomas Edison To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Thomas EdisonThomas Edison Tomorrow Is My Exam But I Don’t Care Because A Single Sheet Of Paper Can’t Decide My Future.
Thomas EdisonThomas Edison Absorb ideas from every source.
Thomas EdisonThomas Edison I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
Thomas EdisonThomas Edison We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present.
Thomas EdisonThomas Edison The strength of the Constitution, lies in the will of the people to defend it.
Thomas EdisonThomas Edison There is no substitute for hard work.
Thomas EdisonThomas Edison The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child.
Thomas EdisonThomas Edison 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.
Thomas EdisonThomas Edison Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.
Thomas EdisonThomas Edison Success is the product of the severest kind of mental and physical application.
Thomas EdisonThomas Edison We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.
Thomas EdisonThomas Edison I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
Thomas EdisonThomas Edison Do the thing and the power will come.
Thomas EdisonThomas Edison I never view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn’t work.
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