Thomas Edison

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

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

There is no substitute for hard work.

Thanks to emptiness, everything is possible.

‘Someday’ is the day after you die.

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.

Keep your focus intact, and focus on the solution.

Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

As youngsters, my mother taught her children that while we might not be the smartest people around, we could be courteous, polite and considerate of others.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

If you don’t see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.

A new day is here. Yesterday is a memory. Tomorrow is unknown. Now is the knowing.

No matter where you are in life, you’ll save a lot of time by not worrying too much about what other people think about you. The earlier in your life that you can learn that, the easier the rest of it will be.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.

You will never know true freedom until you achieve financial freedom.

People are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves. That is why they remain bound.

You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.