Anything that won’t sell, I don’t want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
THOMAS EDISONI 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.
More Thomas Edison Quotes
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It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
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Consider data without prejudice.
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Success depends on how many experiments you can fit into 24 hours.
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We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.
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Success is the result of hard work.
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I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
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A failure teaches you that something can’t be done-that way.
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I failed my way to success.
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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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Great ideas originate in the muscles.
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What you are will show in what you do.
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The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
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Do the thing and the power will come.
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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 have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
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