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Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of...  
Be courageous! Have faith! Go Forward!  
Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always Americ...  
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is p...  
Discontent is the first necessity of progress.  
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.  
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspirati...  
Great ideas originate in the muscles.  
Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.   Business
His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of in...  
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded isanother ...  
I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.  
I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that preced...  
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the f...   Friendship
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.  
I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that s...  
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...  
I start where the last man left off.  
If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound...  
It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put...  
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't me...   Business
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they ...  
Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most u...  
Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where i...  
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evo...  
One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its r...  
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls...  
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succe...  
Religion is all bunk.  
Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.  
Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of pr...  
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thou...  
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.  
The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done i...  
The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitant...  
The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around  
The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it ...  
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard w...  
The value of an idea lies in the using of it.  
There is far more opportunity than there is ability.  
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of...  
There is no substitute for hard work.  
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force...  
There's a way to do it better - find it.  
They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice ...  
To have a great idea, have a lot of them.  
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.  
To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarci...  
Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lay...  
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.  
What a man's mind can create, man's character can control.  
What you are will show in what you do.  
When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of...  
Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.