There cannot be overproduction of anything which men and women want. And their wants are unlimited, except by the size of their stomachs.
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Other Thomas Edison quotes:
Every failure is a lesson learned about your strategy.
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
The man who doesn't make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasure in life.
I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.
I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.
Consider data without prejudice.
When I have finally decided that a result is worth getting, I go ahead on it and make trial after trial until it comes.
The inventor can't do it all, you've got to change people. We have an enormous capacity to invent super-machinery. But our desire to install the device is weak. Human inertia is the problem, not invention. Something in man makes him resist change.
Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
