“banyak orang yang gagal adalah orang yang tidak menyadari betapa dekatnya mereka dengan kesuksesan saat mereka menyerah”
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Thomas A. Edison
“I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.”
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Thomas A. Edison
“When Thomas Edison’s factory burned to the ground in 1914, destroying one-of-a-kind prototypes and causing $23 million in damage, Edison’s response was simple:
"Thank goodness all our mistakes were burned up. Now we can start fresh again.”
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Thomas A. Edison
“Restlessness is discontent — and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man — and I will show you a failure.”
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Thomas A. Edison
“Opportunity is often missed because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
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Thomas A. Edison
“I have never failed, I've only shown the way I did it before doesn't work.”
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Thomas A. Edison
“Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.”
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Thomas A. Edison
“There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the real labor of thinking.”
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Thomas A. Edison
“We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.”
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Thomas A. Edison
“We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work”
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Thomas A. Edison
“I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it”
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Thomas A. Edison
“If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
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Thomas A. Edison
“Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.”
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Thomas A. Edison
“The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.”
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Thomas A. Edison
