"I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success."
-Thomas A. Edison
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"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.“
-Thomas A. Edison
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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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"One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success."
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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 never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work."
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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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