"The reason a lot of people do..." - Quote by Thomas Edison

“Each time you fail, you have eliminated another wrong option.”

“A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job”

“The biggest failure of man is that he gives up before he realizes how close he was to success.”

“Man seldom questions the fact that ugliness and evil are to be found in the world. But he's never as ready to accept that life also offers unlimited beauty and potential for joy as well as endless opportunities for pleasure.”

“Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.”

“The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.”

“The profile of a wealthy person is this hard work, perseverance, and most of all, self-discipline.”

“Do not talk about giftedness, inborn talents! One can assume great men of all kinds who were very little gifted. They acquired greatness, became “geniuses” (as we put it), through qualities the lack of which no one who knew what they were would boast of: they all possessed that seriousness of the efficient workman which first learns to construct the parts properly before it ventures to fashion a great whole; they allowed themselves time for it, because they took more pleasure in making the little, secondary things well than in the effect of a dazzling whole.”

“Two per cent. is genius, and ninety-eight per cent. is hard work.”