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The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus...

Firsts Quotes

The First 40 hours of work per week are for survival. Everything after that is for success.

Firsts Quotes

There is far more danger in public than in private monopoly, for when Government goes into business it can always shift its losses to the taxpayers. Government never makes ends meetand that is the first requisite of business.

Firsts Quotes

First be sure a thing is wanted or needed, then go ahead.

Firsts Quotes

I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious theories of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.

Intelligence Quotes

To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction.

Imagination Quotes

It is a terrible situation when the Government, to insure the National Wealth, must go in debt and submit to ruinous interest charges, at the hands of men, who control the fictitious value of gold. Interest is the invention of Satan.

The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.

Vision without execution is delusion.

Vision Quotes

My success is due more to my ability to work continuously on one thing without stopping than to any other single quality.

Quality Quotes

The real measure of success is the number of experiments that can be crowded into 24 hours.

Real Quotes

Being busy does not always mean real work.

Real Quotes

Accomplishing something provides the only real satisfaction in life.

Real Quotes

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.

Real Quotes

Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.

Luck Quotes

I failed my way to success.

Fear Quotes

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.

Honesty Quotes

I never quit until I get what I want.

Quitting Quotes

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. As a result, a genius is often a talented person who has simply done all of his homework.

Genius Quotes

Genius is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration.

Genius Quotes

I consider Paine our greatest political thinker. As we have not advanced, and perhaps never shall advance, beyond the Declaration and Constitution, so Paine has had no successors who extended his principles.

I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.

An average American loves his family. If he has any love left over for some other person, he generally selects Mark Twain.

Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man’s character.

I would construct and work along various lines until I found them untenable. When one theory was discarded, I developed another at once. I realized very early that this was the only possible way for me to work out all the problems.

I never knew I had an inventive talent until Phrenology told me so. I was a stranger to myself until then!

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 foundations and individual donors whose priorities don’t align with my organization’s.

They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.

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

Incurably religious, that is the best way to describe the mental condition of so many people.

I am much less interested in what is called God’s word than in God’s deeds. All bibles are man-made.

I love great music and art, but I think ‘cubist’ songs and paintings are hideous.

As Danand Ian over at the Lifestyle Business Podcast say: Rush to failure.

Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we’re just trying to accomplish something.

Nature is truly wonderful. Only man is truly foul.

I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul. No, all this talk of an existence for us, as individuals, beyond the grave is wrong. It is born of our tenacity of life – our desire to go on living – our dread of coming to an end.

It is the best book ever written on the subject. There is nothing like it!

Book Quotes

No Such Thing as Bad Results.

I have been at work for some time building an apparatus to see if it is possible for personalities which have left this earth to communicate with us.

Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward.

In ‘Common Sense’ Paine flared forth with a document so powerful that the Revolution became inevitable. Washington recognized the difference, and in his calm way said that matters never could be the same again.

Inspiration can be found in a pile of junk. Sometimes, you can put it together with a good imagination and invent something.

My mind is incapable of conceiving such a thing as a soul. I may be in error, and man may have a soul; but I simply do not believe it.

I start where the last man left off. What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of a man can achieve.

I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention. It’s their ‘ideas’ that appeal to me. I am quite correctly described as ’more of a sponge than an inventor.

Baseball is the greatest of American games. Some say football, but it is my firm belief, and it shall always be, that baseball has no superior.

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

Nobody knows whether our personalities pass on to another existence or sphere, but if we can evolve an instrument so delicate to be manipulated by our personality as it survives in the next life such an instrument ought to record something...

I try not to invent things that people don’t need.

The entity that gives life and motion to the human body is finer still and lies infinitely beyond the reach of our finest scientific instruments. When this entity deserts the body, the body is like a ship without a rudder – deserted, motionless, dead.

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