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Happiness can be a choice, not a circumstance. The quotes stress that people are more important than factories, and that rebuilding a business needs the right workers. They also remind us that thinking itself is hard work, so few people actually do it.

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Burdening people with debt is an old deal not a new deal.

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An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

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Don't expect people to respect you for what you are "planning" to do.

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If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.

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People are as happy as they choose to be.

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People can have the Model T in any color – so long as it’s black.

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Thinking is hard work, which is why so few people do it.

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Come ye thankful people, come, Raise the song of Harvest-home!

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The only motive that can keep politics pure is the motive of doing good for one's country and its people.

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Almost all enduring success comes to people after they are forty. For seldom does mature judgment arrive before then.

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The two most important things in any company do not appear in its balance sheet: its reputation and its people.

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The cure for materialism is to have enough for everybody and to share. When people are sure of having what they need…

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It is regrettable that people think about our monetary system, and of our economic structure, only in times of depression.

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Most people think of success in terms of getting; success, however, begins in terms of giving.

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There are people who say they can , others they can not . In general, they are all right .

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If governments would only understand that if people are left alone they'll work out their own salvation.

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The people must be helped to think naturally about money. They must be told what it is, and what makes it money,…

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Mr Edison gave America just what was needed at that moment in history. They say that when people think of me, they…

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People see successes that men have made and somehow they appear to be easy. But that is a world away from the…

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There are always two kinds of people in the world - those who pioneer and those who plod. The plodders always attack…

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The Government is a servant and never should be anything but a servant. The moment the people become adjuncts to government, then…

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It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I…

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People are never so likely to be wrong as when they are organized. And they never have so little freedom. Perhaps that…

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The gifted man bears his gifts into the world, not for his own benefit, but for the people among whom he is…

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Where people work longest and with least leisure, they buy the fewest goods. No towns were so poor as those of England…

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The government in business may waste time and money without rendering service. In the end the public pays in taxes. The corporation…

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As a young man, I was very interested in how people lived in earlier times; how they got from place to place,…

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There had been observed in this country certain streams of influence which are causing a marked deterioration in our literature, amusements, and…

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Some people think they can; some think they can't. They are probably both right.

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I could use a hundred people who don't know there is such a word as impossible.

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Many people miss opportunity because it came disguised in overalls.

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If two people agree, one of them is unnecessary.

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Thinking is hard work. That's why there are so few people doing it.

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The average man won't really do a day's work unless he is caught and cannot get out of it. There is plenty…

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It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

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Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

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One of the most difficult things to do in life is thinking; that's why so few people engage in it.

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America is not a land of money but of wealth-not a land of rich people, but of successful workers.

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Some people believe they are winners, others believe they are losers. And they are both right.

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Two classes of people lose money; those who are too weak to guard what they have; those who win money by trick.…

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Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait.…

These men of many nations must be taught American ways, the English language, and the right way to live.

People are as happy as they choose to be.

Those who stop marketing to save money are like those who stop a clock to save time.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

A man's college and university degrees mean nothing to me until I see what he is able to do with them.

Don't find the fault, find the remedy

A customer votes everyday with his dollar. Our job is make sure he votes for us.

Our clothing, our food, our household furnishings - all could be much simpler than they now are and at the same time be better…

The time is coming when man will be able to determine the length of his lifespan by controlling his diet.

You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do. It's simple, fantasize, rehearse, then go out into the world and DO IT!

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

Without doubt, Thomas Edison is my greatest contemporary.

As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege we are going to see poverty and special privilege…

The time will come when man will know even what is going on in the other planets and perhaps be able to visit them.