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Jemand fragte Edison: "Ist es wahr, daß Sie die erste sprechende Maschine erfunden haben?" "O nein", erwiderte Edison, "das hat der liebe Gott schon mit der Rippe Adams fertiggebracht".
Informationen über Thomas Alva Edison
Erfinder epochaler Techniken der Bereiche "Licht, Telekommunikation, Medien für Ton und Bild" mit über 1000 Patenten, 1877: "Phonograph", 1879: "Glühlampe", 1888: "Telegramm", 1896: "Vitaskop/Filmprojektion", (USA, 1847 - 1931).
Thomas Alva Edison · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
Thomas Alva Edison wäre heute 177 Jahre, 2 Monate, 16 Tage oder 64.724 Tage alt.
Geboren am 11.02.1847 in Milan/Ohio
Gestorben am 18.10.1931 in West Orange/New Jersey
Sternzeichen: ♒ Wassermann
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Weitere 48 Zitate von Thomas Alva Edison
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Wenn es einen Weg gibt, etwas besser zu machen: Finde ihn!
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Wir wissen nicht einmal ein Millionstel Prozent der Dinge.
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Wir wissen von allem nicht einmal ein Millionstel eines Prozents.
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As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
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Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
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I am more of a sponge than an inventor. I absorb ideas from every source. I take half-matured schemes for mechanical development and make them practical. I am a sort of a middleman between the long-haired and impractical inventor and the hard-headed business man who measures all things in terms of dollars and cents. My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant but misdirected ideas of others.
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I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
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I am wondering what would have happened to me if some fluent talker had converted me to the theory of the eight-hour day and convinced me that it was not fair to my fellow workers to put forth my best efforts in my work. I am glad that the eight-hour day had not been invented when I was a young man. If my life had been made up of eight-hour days I do not believe I could have accomplished a great deal. This country would not amount to as much as it does if the young men of fifty years ago had been afraid that they might earn more than they were paid for.
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I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
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I have lived a long time, and I have seen history repeat itself again and again. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has come out stronger and more prosperous. Be as brave as your fathers before you. Have faith. Go forward.
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I know this world is ruled by Infinite Intelligence. It required Infinite Intelligence to create it and it requires Infinite Intelligence to keep it on its course. Everything that surrounds us - everything that exists - roves that there are Infinite Laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.
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I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
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It is remarkable to what lengths people will go to avoid thought.
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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
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My mind is incapable of conceiving such a thing as a soul. I may be in error, and man may have a soul; but I simply do not believe it.
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Only that person is successful who does something while waiting for success to come.
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Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.
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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure.
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The roots of tobacco plants must go clear through to hell.
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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth- while are first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.
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