Continued innovation is the best way to beat the competition.
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Other Thomas Edison quotes:
I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it.
To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction.
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.
An idea is something that won't work unless you do.
Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking all day from one laboratory table to another. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.
The perils of overwork are slight compared with the dangers of inactivity.
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.
My success is due more to my ability to work continuously on one thing without stopping than to any other single quality.
A failure teaches you that something can't be done - that way.
Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you're working on.
