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- Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
- It is very different to make a practical system and to introduce it. A few experiments in the laboratory would prove the practicability of system…
- To get a great idea, come up with lots of them.
- I am wondering what would have happened to me if some fluent talker had converted me to the theory of the eight-hour day and convinced…
- The man who doesn’t make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasure in life.
- I can never pick up a thing without wishing to improve it.
- Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without…
- From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain…
- 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…
- I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
- The biggest failure of man is that he gives up before he realizes how close he was to success.
- 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…
- Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
- Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
- The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.
- 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…
- 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…
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