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 | "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. I
believe that restlessness is discontent, and discontent is merely the
first necessity of progress." | |
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Found in the topic Failure.
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| "None of my inventions came by accident?they came by work." | |
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Found in the topic Invention.
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| "Hell, there are no rules here ? we"re trying to accomplish
something." | |
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Found in the topic Rule.
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| "A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor
may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another. Accordingly, my
principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant but
misdirected ideas of others." | |
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Found in the topic Idea.
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| "Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration." | |
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Found in the topic Genius.
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| "Because thinking is often hard work, there seems to be no limit to
which some people will go to avoid the labor that is associated with it.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would
literally astound ourselves." | |
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Found in the topic Think.
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| "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in
overalls, and looks like work." | |
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Found in the topic Opportunity.
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| "There is no substitute for hard work." | |
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Found in the topic Substitutes.
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| "Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think
they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than
think." | |
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Found in the topic People.
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| "The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus
and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand without
growing weary." | |
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Found in the topic Success.
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| "I am wondering what would have happened to me if some fluent talker
had converted me to the theory of the eight-hour day and convinced me that
it was not fair to my fellow workers to put forth my best efforts in my
work. I am glad that the eight-hour day had not been invented when I was a
young man. If my life had been made up of eight-hour days, I do not believe
I could have accomplished a great deal. This country would not amount to as
much as it does if the young men of fifty years ago had been afraid that
they might earn more than they were paid for." | |
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Found in the topic Work.
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| "If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave
them an estate of incalculable value." | |
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Found in the topic Enthusiasm.
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| "I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the
existence of an intelligent creator." | |
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Found in the topic Chemistry.
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| "Someday man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison
the power of the sun, and release atomic power." | |
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Found in the topic Atom.
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| "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a
failure." | |
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Found in the topic Insanity.
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| "The value of an idea lies in the using of it." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "We don"t know a millionth of one percent about anything." | |
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Found in the topic If.
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| "Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of
progress." | |
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Found in the topic Progress.
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| "My mind is incapable of conceiving such a thing as a soul. I may be
in error, and man may have a soul; But I simply do not believe it." | |
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Found in the topic Soul.
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| "As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey." | |
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Found in the topic Alcohol.
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