"Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets……" — Thomas A. Edison
"Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning."
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279 Quotes by Thomas A. Edison
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My mother was the making of me. She was so true and so sure of me, I felt that I…
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The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
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Results? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results! If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed.…
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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
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Somewhere between the ages of eleven and fifteen, the average child begins to suffer from an atrophy, the paralysis of…
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We haven't failed. We now know a thousand things that won't work, so we are much closer to finding what…
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Genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration.
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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
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IF PARENTS PASS ENTHUSIASM ALONG TO THEIR CHILDREN, THEY WILL LEAVE THEM AN ESTATE OF INCALCULABLE VALUE
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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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I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process.
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I am 67, but I'm not too old to make a fresh start.
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