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Ability
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The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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Action(s)
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What you are will show in what you do.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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Bravery
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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 Alva Edison
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Control
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What man's mind can create, man's character can control.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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Discontent
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Discontent is the first necessity of progress.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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Effort
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There ain't no rules around here, we're trying to accomplish something.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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Excellence
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I start where the last man left off.
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There's a way to do better... find it.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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Excess
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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 Alva Edison
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Failure
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Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
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I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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Genius
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His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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Ideas
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The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
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To have a great idea, have a lot of them.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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Great ideas originate in the muscles.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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Inventing, Inventions
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I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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Knowledge
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We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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Life
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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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Mankind, Man
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The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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Maturity
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Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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Mind, the
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The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around
-Thomas Alva Edison
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Miracles
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I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists -- proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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Opportunity
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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
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Books by and about Thomas Alva Edison