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"Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration."
"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."
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
"I am long on ideas, but short on time. I only expect to live only about a hundred years."
"It's very beautiful over there."
(Suffering from re-occuring pneumonia and semi-unconscious, his wife, Mina, ask "Are your suffering?" to which he replied, "No, just waiting." Then looked out of his bedroom window and softly spoke his last words.)
"Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure."
"I am long on ideas, but short on time. I only expect to live only about a hundred years."
"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk."
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
