Tag: Thomas A. Edison
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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!
Thomas A. Edison
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Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.
Thomas A. Edison
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We don’t know a millionth of one percent about anything.
Thomas A. Edison
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The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
Thomas A. Edison
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Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas A. Edison
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The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.
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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I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
Thomas A. Edison
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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.
Thomas A. Edison
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The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet, and the cause and prevention of disease.
Thomas A. Edison