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People Quotes by Thomas A. Edison
- The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand -…
- If the Nation can issue a dollar bond it can issue a dollar bill. The element that makes the bond good makes the bill good…
- The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.
- The strength of the Constitution, lies in the will of the people to defend it.
- It is remarkable to what lengths people will go to avoid thought.
- It is absurd to say that our country can issue $30,000,000 in bonds and not $30,000,000 in currency. Both are promises to pay; but one…
- Incurably religious, that is the best way to describe the mental condition of so many people.
- Most of my ideas belonged to other people who never bothered to develop them.
- 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…
- People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project (Muscle Shoals Dam) nor contribute a pound of material, will collect more…
- There is much more opportunity than there are people to see it.
- People are not remembered by how few times they fail, but by how often they succeed. Every wrong step is another step forward
- Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
- The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
- It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
- Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.
- Failure is really a matter of conceit. People don't work hard because, in their conceit, they imagine they'll succeed without ever making an effort. Most…
- The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind…
- Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. It is astonishing how many have difficulty in putting…
- Opportunity is missed by most people, because its dressed in overalls and looks like work! Thomas Edison
- Oppurtunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
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