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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

- Thomas A. Edison

Work, Found, Ways, Failure

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

- Thomas A. Edison

People, Failures, Many, Failure

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

- Thomas A. Edison

Art, Mind, Old, Scarcity

Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.

- Thomas A. Edison

Most, Very, Unjust, Absurd

The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.

- Thomas A. Edison

Best, Been, Worst, Turmoil

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

- Thomas A. Edison

Progress, Necessity, First, Discontent

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

- Thomas A. Edison

Failure, Will, Thoroughly, Discontent

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.

- Thomas A. Edison

Purpose, Doing, Production, Object

Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.

- Thomas A. Edison

Idea, Works, Nearly, Discouraged

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 A. Edison

Question, Will, Waste, Lays

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

- Thomas A. Edison

Work, Wisdom, Achieve, Common Sense

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.

- Thomas A. Edison

Greatest Pleasure, His, Invention

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

- Thomas A. Edison

Go, Ahead, Trial, Fully

I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.

- Thomas A. Edison

Proud, Fact, Never, Weapons

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 A. Edison

Courage, Always, Fathers, Depressions

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

- Thomas A. Edison

Forward, Perhaps, Wilson, Notice

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

- Thomas A. Edison

Wisdom, Genius, One Percent, Ninety-Nine

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.

- Thomas A. Edison

Death, War, Terrifying, Order

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.

- Thomas A. Edison

Sentence, Nine, Brief, One Percent

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

- Thomas A. Edison

Percent, Know, About, One Percent

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

- Thomas A. Edison

Imagination, Need, Pile, Junk

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

- Thomas A. Edison

Business, Just Because, Mean, Useless

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.

- Thomas A. Edison

Work, My Life, Never, Fun

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

- Thomas A. Edison

Never, Inventions, Nor, Accident

Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.

- Thomas A. Edison

Success, Want, Sell, Sale

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

- Thomas A. Edison

Non-Violence, Other, Which, Beings

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 A. Edison

Fact, Behind, Laws, Ruled

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

- Thomas A. Edison

Reward, Greatest Pleasure, Calls

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

- Thomas A. Edison

Friendship, World, Would, Swap

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

- Thomas A. Edison

Imagination, Muscles, Originate

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