Before you reject an idea, find at least five good things about it.
THOMAS EDISONOpportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
More Thomas Edison Quotes
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There’s a way to do it better – find it.
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Success is based on imagination plus ambition and the will to work.
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What you are will show in what you do.
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Success depends on how many experiments you can fit into 24 hours.
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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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Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
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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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Having a vision for what you want is not enough. Vision without execution is hallucination.
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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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So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake. Religion is all bunk.
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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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When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.
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Continued innovation is the best way to beat the competition.
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I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it.
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I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
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