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Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph and the long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. Dubbed "The Wizard of Menlo Park" by a newspaper reporter, he was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production and large teamwork to the process of invention, and therefore is often credited with the creation of the first industrial research laboratory. Find out more about Thomas A. Edison quotes on Thomas A. Edison's biography.

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I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

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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.

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Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

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Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

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There is no substitute for hard work.

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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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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

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