Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Quote by Thomas A. Edison
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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
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Thomas A. Edison Quotes
- Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- 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.
- 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.
- Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
- Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
- To my mind the old masters are not art their value is in their scarcity.
- Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
- One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
- The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
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- Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.
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