The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.
THOMAS EDISONThe first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus.
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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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The strength of the Constitution, lies in the will of the people to defend it.
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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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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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To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
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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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Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.
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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
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I didn’t fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.
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So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake. Religion is all bunk.
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Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.
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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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I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.
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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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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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