You do something all day long, don't you? Every one does. If you get up at seven o'clock and go to bed at eleven, you have put in sixteen good hours,… - Thomas Edison

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You do something all day long, don't you? Every one does. If you get up at seven o'clock and go to bed at eleven, you have put in sixteen good hours, and it is certain with most people, that they have been doing something all the time. They have been either walking, or reading, or writing, or thinking. The only trouble is that they do it about a great many things and I do it about one. If they took the time in question and applied it in one direction, to one object, they would succeed. Success is sure to follow such application. The trouble lies in the fact that people do not have an object, one thing, to which they stick, letting all else go. Success is the product of the severest kind of mental and physical application.

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About Thomas Edison

Thomas Alva Edison (11 February 1847 – 18 October 1931) was an American inventor and businessman who developed many devices which greatly influenced life worldwide into the twenty-first century.

Biography information from Wikiquote · Portrait adapted from Wikimedia Commons, Louis Bachrach, Bachrach Studios, restored by Michel Vuijlsteke (Public domain / CC0)

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Birth Name: Thomas Alva Edison
Alternative Names: Thomas A. Edison Edison

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