Thomas Edison Quotes

• The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.
• 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 place to become discouraged.
• Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
• I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
• What you are will show in what you do.
• The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
• The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.
• It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
• Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
• The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
• Be courageous! Have faith! Go Forward!
• I am more of a sponge than an inventor. I absorb ideas from every source. My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant but misdirected ideas of others.
• Thinking is hard work.
• I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.
• Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
• A genius is just a talented person who does his homework.
• Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.
• As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
• The only time I become discouraged is when I think of all the things I like to do and the little time I have in which to do them
• I have more respect for the fellow with a single idea who gets there than for the fellow with a thousand ideas who does nothing.

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