Thomas Edison

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

There is no substitute for hard work.

I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways it won’t work.

Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.

I will work day after day like I did my whole life … I’m not going to change anything.

I’m wary of what goal I set, because then I’ll have to accomplish it.

To give away money is an easy matter, and in any man’s power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man’s power, nor an easy matter. Hence it is that such excellence is rare, praiseworthy, and noble.

Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they found a publisher who was willing to ‘gamble’ on an unknown.

In the marathon of life, success calls for dedication to the goal, perseverance, compassion for my fellow man, and faith in God.

I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That’s were the fun is.

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.

The world’s most deadly disease is hardening of the attitudes.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I– I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it.

The successful business executive can handle challenges and solve problems at a remarkable clip.

If you are not willing to learn no one can help you. If you are determined to learn no one can stop you.

I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.