I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident and none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They came about by hard work.
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The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand without growing weary.Thomas Alva Edison
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another. Accordingly, my principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant but misdirected ideas of others.
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My mind is incapable of conceiving such a thing as a soul. I may be in error, and man may have a soul But I simply do not believe it.
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I have not failed. I have merely found 10,000 ways that won't work.
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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 me that it was not fair to my fellow workers to put forth my best efforts in my work. I am glad that the eight-hour day had not been invented when I was a young man. If my life had been made up of eight-hour days, I do not believe I could have accomplished a great deal. This country would not amount to as much as it does if the young men of fifty years ago had been afraid that they might earn more than they were paid for.
Thomas Alva Edison
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