Success Quotes by Thomas A. Edison

41 Success quotes by Thomas A. Edison

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Thomas Edison says that real work, persistence, and common sense are the three essentials for achievement. He warns that opportunity often appears as ordinary work that many ignore. He also stresses the need to focus on one task without stopping.

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The secret of success is focus of purpose.

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Success is the result of hard work.

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I failed my way to success.

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Do the thing and the power will come.

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Seeming to do is not doing.

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I have had a lot of success with failure

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“Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.”

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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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The biggest failure of man is that he gives up before he realizes how close he was to 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 find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

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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.

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I have not failed. I have successfully discovered 1200 ideas that don't work.

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Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! ... I've failed my way to success.

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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…

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“The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.”

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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…

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The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness…

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People are not remembered by how few times they fail, but by how often they succeed. Every wrong step is another step…

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No, I haven't failed thousands of times. On the contrary, I have successfully eliminated thousands of ideas that do not work!

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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.

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Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.

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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…

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Failure is really a matter of conceit. People don't work hard because, in their conceit, they imagine they'll succeed without ever making…

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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.…

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The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness... Unfortunately, many of life's failures are…

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Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! Any other bright-minded fellow can accomplish just as much if he will stick like…

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“As Edison is credited with saying, "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."…

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The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem…

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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…

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

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“There are no rules here -- we're trying to accomplish something.”

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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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The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus...

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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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The First 40 hours of work per week are for survival. Everything after that is for success.

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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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Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability… We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity…

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I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Seventy-five of us worked twenty hours…

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Large portions of life's disappointments are individuals who did not understand that they were so near achievement when they surrendered.

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I remember that I was never able to get along at school. I was at the foot of the class.

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There seems to be no limit to which some men will go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thinking is hard work.

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