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Danh ngôn của Thomas A. Edison (Sứ mệnh: 8)

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet, and the cause and prevention of disease.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
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.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Religion is all bunk.
There is no substitute for hard work.
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.
Great ideas originate in the muscles.
There's a way to do it better - find it.
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
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.
The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
What you are will show in what you do.
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!
Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
To have a great idea, have a lot of them.
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.
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.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
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.
I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.
I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.
I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.