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Thomas Alva Edison Quotes

«When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting, I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.»
«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.»
«They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.»
«I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.»
«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!»
«Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides and imprison the rays of the sun»
«Invention is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration»
«To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.»
«His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.»

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