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| Quotations by Thomas Edison |
 I have friends in overalls - I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.Invention success or failure - It has been just so in all my inventions. The first step is an intuition--and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise. This thing gives out and then that --'Bugs'--as such little faults and difficulties are called -- show themselves and months of anxious watching. Study and labor are requisite before commercial success -- or failure -- is certainly reached. Ways that don't work - I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. The nature of real work - 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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