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.
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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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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
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When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.
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Everything comes to he who hustles while he waits.
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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
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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!
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There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
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Great ideas originate in the muscles.
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Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
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If we did all the things we were capable of doing, We would literally astound ourselves.
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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
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Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.
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There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.
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Discontent is the first necessity of progress.
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I am long on ideas, but short on time. I only expect to live only about a hundred years.
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Genius is 1 inspiration and 99 perspiration.
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It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
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I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
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We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
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Results Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
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Hell, there are no rules here-- we're trying to accomplish something.
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Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
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What man's mind can create, man's character can control.
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Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.
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I have not failed. Ive just found 10,000 ways that dont work.
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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
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Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.
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There ain't no rules around here, we're trying to accomplish something.
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