Genius is not inspired. Inspiration is perspiration.
THOMAS EDISONI’ve realized that most of my best ideas have followed a good night’s sleep.
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Continued innovation is the best way to beat the competition.
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To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
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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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A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job.
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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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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
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Never go to sleep without a request to your subconscious.
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Having a vision for what you want is not enough. Vision without execution is hallucination.
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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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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
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I start where the last man left off.
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Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
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Be courageous! Have faith! Go forward.
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The perils of overwork are slight compared with the dangers of inactivity.
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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.
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