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"The bigger the 'flat' [apartment], the harder one has to work. If the 'flat' is worth six hundred thousand, then he has to work six times as hard. If it is three hundred thousand, he has to work three times over. One simply has to keep on working hard, doesn't he?"

"It's not going to be easy, but it's kind of like ripping off a band-aid. Painful for a minute, but it has to be done."

"And certainly both Horses were doing, if not all they could, all they thought they could; which is not quite the same thing."

"They will cry, he will shout but you must sweat."

"For an apple you can't reach up and pick, you have to climb that tree; the tree won't bend down for you!"

"Though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till."

"You are only responsible for the effort, not the outcome."
Explore more quotes by Thomas A. Edison


"Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged."


"Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success."


"The reason a lot of people do ☆not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work."


"I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success."
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