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  • #1
    Thomas A. Edison
    “Five percent of the people think;
    ten percent of the people think they think;
    and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.”
    Thomas A. Edison

  • #2
    Thomas A. Edison
    “Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
    Thomas A. Edison

  • #3
    Thomas A. Edison
    “Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
    Thomas A. Edison

  • #4
    Thomas A. Edison
    “When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.”
    Thomas Edison

  • #5
    Thomas A. Edison
    “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”
    Thomas Edison

  • #6
    Thomas A. Edison
    “To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.”
    Thomas A. Edison

  • #7
    Thomas A. Edison
    “There are no rules here -- we're trying to accomplish something.”
    Thomas A. Edison

  • #8
    Jeffrey E. Garten
    “A vision without execution is an hallucination.”
    Jeffrey E. Garten, The Mind Of The CEO: The World's Business Leaders Talk About Leadership, Responsibility The Future Of The Corporation, And What Keeps Them Up At Night

  • #9
    Epictetus
    “Τίς εἶναι θέλεις, σαυτῷ πρῶτον εἰπέ: εἶθ' οὕτως ποίει ἃ ποιεῖς. (First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.)”
    Epictetus, The Discourses

  • #10
    Thomas A. Edison
    “Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.”
    Thomas A. Edison

  • #11
    Thomas A. Edison
    “The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.”
    Thomas A. Edison

  • #12
    Thomas A. Edison
    “Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.”
    Thomas A. Edison

  • #13
    Charles de Gaulle
    “The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.”
    Charles de Gaulle
    tags: dogs, man

  • #14
    Charles de Gaulle
    “Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.”
    Charles de Gaulle

  • #15
    Charles de Gaulle
    “I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.”
    Charles de Gaulle

  • #16
    Charles de Gaulle
    “A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.”
    Charles de Gaulle

  • #17
    Charles de Gaulle
    “The cemeteries are full of indispensable men.”
    Charles de Gaulle

  • #18
    Charles de Gaulle
    “Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.”
    Charles de Gaulle

  • #19
    Charles de Gaulle
    “Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.”
    Charles de Gaulle



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