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“Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.”

Thomas A. Edison · Failure

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Thomas A. Edison

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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There is no substitute for hard work.

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Thomas A. Edison

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

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

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