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Thomas Edison on Retirement

1847–1931 United States

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

An Enemy Called Average (1990)

I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Seventy-five of us worked twenty hours every day and slept only four hours — and thrived on it.

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.

There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Thomas Edison (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.