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I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent. My main purpose in life is to make money so that I can afford to go on creating more inventions.


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THOMAS A. EDISON I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. -Thomas Alva Edison.
THOMAS ALVA EDISON Read is my life
life is an adventure
read = adventure
EMMOLCA To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. -Thomas Edison.
THOMAS EDISON Get this (economic plan) passed. Later on, we can all debate it.
, TO NEW HAMPSHIRE LEGISLATORS My main purpose in life is to do everything on purpose.
EFRAT CYBULKIEWICZ One of my other nicknames was Thomas Edison, because I invented so many moves.
EARL MONROE ...which causes me to wonder, my own purpose on so many days as humble as the spider's, what is beau...
LOUISE ERDRICH I want to do whatever I can to survive.
SAM SIMON Great innovators like Thomas Alva Edison, Henry Ford, and Andrew Carnegie didn't rely on governm...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW What I like most about directing is creating a world more so than anything. To me, the music is the ...
MATTHEW GRAY GUBLER I figured out Karl Rove's political strategy -- make gas so expensive, no Democrats can afford to go...
SENATOR JOHN KERRY ...which causes me to wonder, my own purpose on so many days as h umbel as the spider's, what is bea...
LOUISE ERDRICH The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO My big goal in life was always to figure out how I can make a lot of money so I can go off and make ...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA I didn't go in setting out to beat Pierre's run, ... I set out to make the tricks I wanted to make. ...
BUCKY LASEK What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act?
CRAIG GROESCHEL I didn't have anybody, really, no foundation in life, so I had to make my own way. Always, from the ...
TINA TURNER I don't have a lot of skills, but one thing I can do is, I can compartmentalize. I can make that...
DANA SPIOTTA My main goal in life is to be happy. If I can make other people happy by doing what I love, then I f...
CYRILLE AIMEE I notice that most people WORK HARD so they can afford to live their Ideal Life. I just skip the 'wo...
LORRIN L. LEE What do you want from me! i want more then i have and for that i feel guilty, like I'm supposed to h...
STUART STOKES To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world...
GARY F EVANS... I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations...
C. JOYBELL C. My principal professional objective is to introduce intelligence as the ubiquitous utility. I'd ...
MICHAEL J. SAYLOR I am the Thomas Edison of conversational stupidity.
JESSE ANDREWS I didn't have anybody, really, no foundation in life, so I had to make my own way. Always, from ...
TINA TURNER If my primary purpose here at Indiana is to go out and win ballgames, I can probably do that as well...
BOBBY KNIGHT I consider myself an inventor first and an entrepreneur second. In real life, my hero is Thomas Edis...
AARON PATZER Art is not meant to change the world, but when you see people interacting, when you see an impact on...
JR When I'm focusing on what's important to God, I live differently. I invest my time differently.
CRAIG GROESCHEL I'm always telling people baseball needs to be more prominent in the African American community....
MATT KEMP When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving o...
WAYNE DYER When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving o...
WAYNE DYER I go, and I do my work, and I try to do the best I can, and I collect my money, and I go home, and t...
BILLY DEE WILLIAMS I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England.
ELIZABETH I (SPOKEN TO HER PARLAMENT) I try to find where the fun is and go there and then get asked if I want to have more fun. That'...
DANNY WALLACE I can't go above it by law. That's what I am authorized to do. Anything above that means I have to s...
AL NAOMI i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g...
SIMI GREWAL I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I hav...
ANDREW MOTION I have a personal philosophy in life: If somebody else can do something that I'm doing, they sho...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON My restaurants are never opened on Thanksgiving; I want my staff to spend time with their family if ...
MICHAEL SYMON If you go out there and your main purpose is to get a sponsor, then it's not gonna work. Just go...
RYAN SHECKLER I was really proud that I was named after Thomas Edison and wanted to be called Edson. I thought Pel...
PELE My competition is 6 feet underground ? Thomas Edison.
ELLIS YAN I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to f...
ERNEST GAINES All the focus is mainly on Lamar, Jai, Tony and Will [Thomas], so I just try to make sure I make all...
FOLARIN CAMPBELL I might have made more money if I had outsourced to India, and I knew I'd find it easier to hire...
JOHN CAUDWELL The question that faces every man born into this world is not what should be his purpose, which he s...
LIN YUTANG I stand to make more money doing that sequel than I've ever made in my life,
JODIE FOSTER I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m...
AMBER SMITH I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do i...
DAN GLICKMAN I'm not trying to set the world on fire; I just want to make really beautiful clothes that women...
RACHEL ZOE The basic principle of turning ideas into big money is to seize every money building idea and work w...
DUANE NEWCOMB LOVE is and will ALWAYS be the greatest GIFT ƸӜƷ
M.G. WELLS After I got this job at the syndicate, I started sending them money so they could go on trips and do...
LYNN JOHNSTON Yes, my grandfather worked with Thomas Edison on the electric car, and he sold electric cars at the ...
AL JARDINE One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his...
THOMAS ALVA EDISON All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w...
JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD I don't the life of a thug. I live the life of a sinner.
JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT I came to love, I came into my own.
THEODORE ROETHKE I personally believe that each of us was put here for a purpose -- to build not to destroy. If I can...
RED SKELTON Money was always on my mind when I was growing up. So I was always wondering how we were going to af...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO I used to settle for less…but knew I deserved more…so much life to discover…what was I waiting...
TONIA BYERS How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g...
C. JOYBELL C. I don't want to quit smoking. I am convinced that if I quit smoking, the world would go to hell.
MARJANE SATRAPI What I want???
I just want silence I can afford it, it doesn't need to pay for it or does it?
DEYTH BANGER If people are given the opportunity to really make a difference in their own lives, their own commun...
ALEX STEFFEN In the beginning they came and told me that I can stand in front of the judge and tell him that I ca...
BARZAN IBRAHIM A soul needs a purpose to live and so I concluded that my purpose was to kill everyone besides mysel...
MASASHI KISHIMOTO I actually went to NYU for six months, had some family issues that kind of set me back, and I couldn...
AJ LEE i can not go through the ocean. i can not drive the streets at night. i can not wake up in the morni...
A FINE FRENZY First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to im...
DALE CARNEGIE We want to help you find that balance between style and life, creating a look you've always wanted a...
KAREN POWELL CEO We can afford to keep 44 kids for full-day kindergarten. We have so many kids coming in, but we only...
BETH OLMSTEAD I want to do this as long as I can. My main goal this year is to sign a professional contract and st...
JUSTIN HALE I'm not such a nuisance to the world, and the kick I get out of living can, I suppose, justify t...
AARON SWARTZ To much has happened too fast Dear Diary. What I want is for nothing to happen at all.
I don't...
LEE SMITH To make a difference is just... I think... the purpose of what life is.
ANASTACIA There is nothing I can do to undo what I did. I can only say again how sorry I am to those I let dow...
DAVID PETRAEUS The main purpose of Social Security is to redistribute wealth, to make an increasingly large number ...
NEAL BOORTZ And I think the more money you put in people's hands, the more they will spend. And if they don&...
MICHAEL BLOOMBERG Sloppy, Mega,” I mutter. I still can’t see. I wipe my bloody nose on my sleeve and reach out to ...
KAREN MARIE MONING I want to die living. And I want to be remembered as one who lived with purpose, joy and feeling. I ...
STEVE GOODIER My main aim is getting set up so that when I do quit, I can step away and re-evaluate what I want to...
BOO WEEKLEY Trying to make the best of what I can each day, as my limitations try to bring me down, I push to fi...
MIKE ANGELO A girl likes to be crossed a little in love now and then.
It is something to think of
JANE AUSTEN I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it's spoken.
ROBERT KIYOSAKI When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or ...
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THOMAS A. EDISON Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
THOMAS A. EDISON As a cure for worrying, work is better than whisky.
THOMAS A. EDISON He had all the attributes...
THOMAS A. EDISON It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and ...
THOMAS A. EDISON I never once made a discovery ... I speak without exaggeration that I have constructed three thousan...
THOMAS A. EDISON Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep t...
THOMAS A. EDISON When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.
THOMAS A. EDISON Nature is what we know. We do not know the gods of religions. And nature is not kind, or merciful, o...
THOMAS A. EDISON