Thomas A. Edison Quotes About Success
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The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast
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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
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I was always afraid of things that worked the first time. Long experience proved that there were great drawbacks found generally before they could be got commercial; but here was something there was no doubt of.
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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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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
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The real measure of success is the number of experiments that can be crowded into 24 hours.
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I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.
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The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.
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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't 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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Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability.... We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
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I have not failed 10,000 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 10,000 ways will not work.
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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.
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Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.
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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure.
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It has been just so in all my inventions. The first step is an intuition-and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise. This thing that gives out and then that-"Bugs"as such little faults and difficulties are called show themselves and months of anxious watching, study and labor are requisite before commercial success-or failure-is certainly reached.
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I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
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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.
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Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.
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