Thomas Alva Edison Quotes

• What a man’s mind can create, man’s character can control.

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• The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child.

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• The phonograph…is not of any commercial value.

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• Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.

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• The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense

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• The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will Cure and prevent disease with nutrition.

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• There is a time for everything.

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• The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

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• Thomas edison’s last words were “it’s beautiful over there” i don’t know where there is but i believe it’s somewhere and i hope it’s beautiful.

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• If we did all the things we were capable of doing we would literally astonish ourselves

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• I will not say i failed 1000 times, i will say that i discovered there are 1000 ways that can cause failure.

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• Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.

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• When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

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• What you are will show in what you do.

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• We don’t know a millionth of one percent about anything.

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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.

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• To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.

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• To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

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• They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.

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• 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.

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Thomas Alva Edison (60)

Birth:	11th February, 1847
Death:	18th October, 1931
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Businessman, Inventor

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