All Thomas A. Edison Quotes
Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas A. Edison
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Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.
Thomas A. Edison
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Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.
Thomas A. Edison
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It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
Thomas A. Edison
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To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Thomas A. Edison
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Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.
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His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
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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.
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Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
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Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.
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