Thomas Edison Quotes

Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.
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Consist Happiness Inspirational Success Worth
I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.
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Business Clock Dedication Entrerpreneur Owe Success Work
If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.
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Capable Ourselves
I think work is the world’s greatest fun.
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Inspirational One Liner Thinking Work World Fun
I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it.
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Business Finding Invention Need Success Try World
There’s a way to do it better – find it.
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Finding Inspirational One Liner Success
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
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Attempt Business Discourage Step Wrong
Having a vision for what you want is not enough. Vision without execution is hallucination.
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Business Enough Execution Inspirational Vision
A failure teaches you that something can’t be done-that way.
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Business Done Failure Inspirational Teaching
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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Always Give Up Greatness Success Try Weakness
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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Alcohol Brain Engine Funny Human Poison Sand
Never Say I Failed 99 Times, Say I Discovered 99 Ways Which Causes Failure!
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Business Cause Discover Failure Learning Motivational
Vision without execution is delusion.
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Business Delusion Execution One Liner Vision
Accomplishing something provides the only real satisfaction in life.
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Accomplishment Life Reality Satisfaction
The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.
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Achievement Common Sense Essential Greatness Hard Work Stick Worth
There is no limit to which a man will not go to avoid thinking.
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Avoid Business Limitation Man Thinking
There is no limit to which a man will not go to avoid thinking.
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Avoid Business Limitation Man Thinking
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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Failure Finding Negative Positive Result Value
You can’t realize your dreams unless you have one to begin with.
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Beginning Business Dreamss Inspirational Realize
I never did a day’s work in my life, it was all fun.
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Business Entrepreneur Fun Life Work
What you are will show in what you do.
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Action Business Motivational One Liner Show Sports
Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.
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Fools Human Nature Inspirational Men Wise
Nature is truly wonderful. Only man is truly foul.
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Man Nature True Wonderful
When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.
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Eliminate Failure Finding Hustle Inspirational Work
A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job.
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Coal Deep Diamond Inspirational Job Piece Stuck Success
When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this – you haven’t.
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Business Exhaust Hustle Inspirational Possible Remember
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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People Thinking

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