Thomas A. Edison ✓

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[Wikipedia] Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman. He grew up in Michigan with little formal schooling and began working at a young age. He became deaf as a child and learned through books and tinkering. As a railroad telegrapher, he spent much of his time inventing improvements to telegra

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• There is much more opportunity than there are people to see it. Inspirational
• Do the thing and the power will come. Funny
• The First 40 hours of work per week are for survival. Everything after that is for success. Firsts
• Every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward Another Step
• People are not remembered by how few times they fail, but by how often they succeed. Every wrong step is another step forward Another Step
• When you become quiet, it just dawns on you Become Quiet
• An average American loves his family. If he has any love left over for some other person, he generally selects Mark Twain. American
• Being busy does not always mean real work. Always Mean
• I know this world is ruled by Infinite Intelligence. It required Infinite Intelligence to create it and it requires Infinite Intelligence to keep it on… Course
• What is a college? An institute of learning. What is a business? An institute of learning. Life, itself, is an institute of learning. Business
• Success depends on how many experiments you can fit into 24 hours Depends
• My success is due more to my ability to work continuously on one thing without stopping than to any other single quality. Ability
• My mother was the making of me. Humorous
• I told [Kruesi] I was going to record talking, and then have the machine talk back. He thought it absurd. However, it was finished, the… Absurd
• Two per cent. is genius, and ninety-eight per cent. is hard work. Cent
• To Monsieur Eiffel the Engineer, the brave builder of so gigantic and original a specimen of modern Engineering from one who has the greatest respect… Admiration
• I never knew I had an inventive talent until Phrenology told me so. I was a stranger to myself until then! Inspirational
• I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it. I never perfected an invention that I did not think about… Advance
• Seeming to do is not doing. Funny
• If I had not had so much ambition and not tried to do so many things, I probably would have been happier, but less useful. Ambition
• Each time you fail, you have eliminated another wrong option. Another Wrong
• I never once made a discovery ... I speak without exaggeration that I have constructed three thousand different theories in connection with the electric light… Cases
• No, I haven't failed thousands of times. On the contrary, I have successfully eliminated thousands of ideas that do not work! Contrary
• Fish seem to be rather conservative around this bay, one seldom catches enough to form the fundamental basis for a lie. Dante left out one… Bases
• Smoking too much makes me nervous. Must lasso my natural tendency to acquire such habits. Holding heavy cigar constantly in my mouth has deformed my… Acquire

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