Thomas Edison

Quote: Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. [Thomas Edison]

Quote: Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. [Thomas Edison]

Quote: The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense. [Thomas Edison]

Quote: Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. [Thomas Edison]

Quote: Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. [Thomas Edison]

Quote: I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward. [Thomas Edison]

Quote: There is no substitute for hard work. [Thomas Edison]

Quote: Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning. [Thomas Edison]

Quote: The perils of overwork are slight compared with the dangers of inactivity. [Thomas Edison]

Quote: No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind. [Thomas Edison]

Quote: We never shall have any more time we have, and we have always had, all the time there is. [Thomas Edison]

Quote: Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. [Thomas Edison]

Quote: Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little. [Thomas Edison]

Quote: 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! [Thomas Edison]

Quote: His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine. [Thomas Edison]

Quote: I start where the last man left off. [Thomas Edison]

Quote: I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill. [Thomas Edison]

Quote: The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense. [Thomas Edison]

Quote: Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth. [Thomas Edison]

Quote: The value of an idea lies in the using of it. [Thomas Edison]

Quote: To have a great idea, have a lot of them. [Thomas Edison]

Quote: Great ideas originate in the muscles. [Thomas Edison]

Quote: 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. [Thomas Edison]

Quote: I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success. [Thomas Edison]

Quote: There is far more opportunity than there is ability. [Thomas Edison]

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