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Thomas Edison Reads Not For Entertainment But To Increase His Store Of Knowledge. He Sucks In Information As Eagerly As The Bee Sucks Honey From Flowers. The Whole World, So To Speak, Pours Its Wisdom Into His Mind. He Regards It As A Criminal Waste Of Time To Go Through The Slow And Painful Ordeal Of Ascertaining Things For One's Self If These Same Things Have Already Been Ascertained And Made Available By Others. In Edison's Mind Knowledge Is Power.

I Have Known Not A Few Men Who, After Reaching The Summits Of Business Success, Found Themselves Miserable On Attaining Retirement Age. They Were So Exclusively Engrossed In Their Day-to-day Affairs That They Had No Time For Friend-making.... They May Flatter Themselves That Their Unrelaxing Concentration On Business Constitutes Patriotism Of The Highest Order. They May Tell Themselves That The Existing Emergency Will Pass, And That They Can Then Adopt Different, More Sociable, More Friendly Habits. [but] Such A Day Is Little Likely To Come For Such Individuals.

The Majority Of America's Colossal Fortunes Have Been Made By Entering Industries In Their Early Stages And Developing Leadership In Them.... Think Of What Opportunities The Present And The Future Contain In Such Fields As Ship-building And Ship-owning, Aircraft, Electrical Development, The Oil Industry, Different Branches Of The Automotive Industry, Foreign Trade, International Banking, Invention, The Chemical Industry, Moving Pictures, Color Photography, And, One Night Add, Labor Leadership.

Genius Is Often A Short Way Of Spelling Hard Work. Poverty, Obscurity, Struggle And Ambition Formed The Foundation For Many Careers Of Transcendent Achievement. Few Marks Are Made In The World's History By Eight-hour-day Men.... Sir Joshua Reynolds Had But One Maxim For Success: Work, Work, Work. Is Not Rigid And Continuous Training Necessary For The Making Of Strong Athletes? Hard Work Is Not Fatal To Real Success. Vouloir C'est Pouvoir.

You Have No Idea How Big The Other Fellow's Troubles Are.