We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.
THOMAS EDISONI am 67, but I’m not too old to make a fresh start.
More Thomas Edison Quotes
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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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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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The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
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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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I never quit until I get what I want.
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Be courageous! Have faith! Go forward.
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What you are will show in what you do.
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The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child.
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Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
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Everything comes to those who hustle while they wait.
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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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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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I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it.
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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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Great ideas originate in the muscles.
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Most of my ideas belonged to other people who never bothered to develop them.
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There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the real labor of thinking.
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A man’s best friend is a good wife.
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The perils of overwork are slight compared with the dangers of inactivity.
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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
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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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The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.
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Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.
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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
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Having a vision for what you want is not enough. Vision without execution is hallucination.
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Consider data without prejudice.
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