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"40 Thomas A. Edison Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 11 February 1847. Died: 18 October 1931 | Inventor | Businessman |

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Time Certain Succeed Weakness
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Failed Found Just Ways
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Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Because Dressed Like Look
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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Great Great Ideas Ideas Muscles
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Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

Because Just Just Because Mean
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Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.

Consists Worth You Your
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Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

Beings Ethics Evolution Goal
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To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Good Imagination Invent Junk
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Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
Accomplish Hell Here No Rules
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There's a way to do it better - find it.
Better Find Way There
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To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

Great Great Idea Idea Lot
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The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.
Around Body Brain Carry
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They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.

Blunders Forward He Notice
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I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Favor Friends Friendship Kings
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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.
Close Did Failures Gave
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Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Discontent Failure First Man
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There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

Abandon Absolutely Appalled Brain
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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Genius Inspiration Ninety-Nine Ninety-Nine Percent
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When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

After Ahead Decided Fully
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Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
Everything He Him Waits
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Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.

Become Develops Discouraged Every
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There is no substitute for hard work.
Hard Hard Work Substitute Work
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Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

Accomplishment Always Being Being Busy
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What a man's mind can create, man's character can control.
Character Control Create Man
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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Calls Continue Find Greatest
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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.

Astonishing Brains Definitely Effort
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The value of an idea lies in the using of it.

Idea Lies Using Value
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The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.

Around Because Goes Hard
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The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.

Been Best Done Has-Been
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What you are will show in what you do.

Show Will You What
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The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.
Body Cells Community Inhabitants
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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Always America Be Brave Before
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I start where the last man left off.
Last Left Man Off
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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.

Anything Invent Proof Sale
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I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.

Am Fact I Am Invented
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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Achieve Anything Common Essentials
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I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.

Behind Denying Everything Exists
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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
Ability Far More Opportunity Than
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To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.

Art Masters Mind Old
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I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.

Day Did Fun Life
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Thomas A. Edison Quotes & Sayings