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The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.

Restlessness and discontent are the necessities of progress.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.

Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

I never once made a discovery ... I speak without exaggeration that I have constructed three thousand different theories in connection with the electric light ... Yet in only two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory.

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.