“Show me a man’s closest associates,” said Thomas A. Edison, “and I will tell you what sort of character the man has and where he is going in life.”
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“Success comes through the application of power, and power is attained through the cooperative efforts of other people. A negative personality will not induce cooperation.”
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“Men take on the nature and the habits and the POWER OF THOUGHT of those with whom they associate in a spirit of sympathy and harmony.”
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“Knowledge has no value except that which can be gained from its application towards some worthy end.”
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“Remember that your dominating thoughts attract,
through a definite law of nature, by the shortest and most
convenient route, their physical counterpart. Be careful what
your thoughts dwell upon.”
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“Your power of thought is the only thing that you have complete, unchallengeable control over. You do this through the power of will.”
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“It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.”
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“If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.”
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“It is an eternal truth that men receive more pay for their ABILITY TO GET OTHERS TO PERFORM, than they could possibly earn by their own efforts.”
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“You may as well know, also that every great leader, from the dawn of civilization down to the present, was a dreamer.
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“Fear of poverty is a state of mind, nothing else! But it is sufficient to destroy one’s chances of achievement in any undertaking, a truth which became painfully evident during the depression.”
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“The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.”
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“I have never been to St. John's Wood. I dare not. I should be afraid of the innumerable night of fir trees, afraid to come upon a blood red cup and the beating of the wings of the Eagle.”
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“Definiteness of decision always requires courage, sometimes very great courage. The fifty-six men who signed the Declaration of Independence staked their lives on the decision to affix their signatures to that document.”
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“PROCRASTINATION. The habit of putting off until tomorrow that which should have been done last year.”
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