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Ideas Quotes by Thomas A. Edison
- I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does…
- Before you reject an idea, find at least five good things about it.
- An idea is something that won't work unless you do.
- I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.
- Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem…
- To get a great idea, come up with lots of them.
- I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention. It's their…
- Most of my ideas belonged to other people who never bothered to develop them.
- I have not failed. I have successfully discovered 1200 ideas that don't work.
- My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others....
- Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without…
- Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others…
- A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another....
- To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our…
- 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 experienced by people…
- The beauty of a great idea lies in the art of using it.
- Ideas without execution are hallucinations.
- No, I haven't failed thousands of times. On the contrary, I have successfully eliminated thousands of ideas that do not work!
- The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
- Great ideas originate in the muscles.
- To have a great idea, have a lot of them.
- Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the…
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