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" Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success. "
Success
Anything
Proof
" Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward! "
Courage
Faith
America
" 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. "
Busy
Work
Intelligence
" Discontent is the first necessity of progress. "
Progress
Necessity
First
" Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits. "
Everything
Him
Waits
" Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. "
Wisdom
Percent
Inspiration
" Great ideas originate in the muscles. "
Imagination
Muscles
Ideas
" Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something. "
Rules
Hell
Business
" His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine. "
Content
Inspiration
He
" I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill. "
I Am
Weapons
Proud
" I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success. "
Reward
Find
Success
" If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves. "
Inspirational
Capable
Did
" I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world. "
Friendship
World
Kings
" I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. "
Ways
Failure
Work
" I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision. "
Know
Infinite
Us
" I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun. "
Fun
Work
Never
" I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work. "
Inventions
Never
Work
" I start where the last man left off. "
Where
Start
Last
" It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work. "
Work
Seems
Put
" Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless. "
Business
Just Because
You
" Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. "
Life
Realize
Failure
" Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth. "
More
Absurd
Maturity
" 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. "
Place
Man
Looks
" Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. "
Goal
Non-Violence
Ethics
" One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success. "
Money
Work
Success
" Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. "
Like
Work
People
" Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. "
Time
Succeed
Weakness
" Religion is all bunk. "
Religion
Bunk
" Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. "
Man
Me
Failure
" Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work. "
Know
Results
Things
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