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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.

— Thomas 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.

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

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Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

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