I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Quote by Thomas A. Edison
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I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
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Thomas A. Edison Quotes
- To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
- The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
- The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
- Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
- I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
- I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.
- Religion is all bunk.
- To have a great idea, have a lot of them.
- There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
- Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
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