Thomas A. Edison Quotes

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

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• I never view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn't work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Mistake, Failure, Opportunity

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• Having a vision for what you want is not enough...Vision without execution is hallucination

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Entrepreneur, Vision

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• There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Thank God we can start a new.

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  Mistake, Thank God, Disaster

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• There is a better way for everything. Find it.

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  Inspirational, Way, Better Ways

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• We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.

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  Inspirational, Rich, Electricity

  Thomas A. Edison's statement to a reporter during the first public demonstration of his incandescent (December 31, 1879), as quoted in Chris J. Magoc "Chronology of Americans and the Environment" (p. 46), 2011.

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• Each time you fail, you have eliminated another wrong option.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Failure, Failing

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• Failure is the most effective technique to optimize strategic planning, implementation and processes.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Technique, Planning, Process

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• Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Funny, Life, Motivational

  "An Enemy Called Average". Book by John L. Mason, 1990.

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• The world owes nothing to any man, but every man owes something to the world.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Men, World

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• You can't realize your dreams unless you have one to begin with.

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  Dream, Goal, Realizing

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• A genius is a talented person who does his homework.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Ballet, Doe, Genius

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• Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.

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  Thinking, People, Willful Ignorance

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• My success is due more to my ability to work continuously on one thing without stopping than to any other single quality.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Quality, Stopping, Ability

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• Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can't afford to lose.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Time, Humans, Human Beings

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• I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Defending and Parenting Children Who Learn Differently : Lessons from Edison's Mother". Book by Scott Teel, 2007.

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• Success is 90% perspiration and 10% inspiration!

  Thomas A. Edison

  Business, Inspiration, Perspiration

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• Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.

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  Inspirational, Wise, Men

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• The secret of success is focus of purpose.

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  Focus, Secret, Purpose

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• We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Drinking, Ignorance, Knowledge

  "Stevenson's Book of Quotations". Book by Burton Egbert Stevenson, 1938.

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• The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.

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  Success, Commitment, Action

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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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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "From Telegraph to Light Bulb with Thomas Edison". Book by Deborah Headstrom-Page, 2007.

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

  Thomas A. Edison

  Success, Work, Common Sense

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• Accomplishing something provides the only real satisfaction in life.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Real, Satisfaction In Life, Satisfaction

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