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"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."

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"Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success."

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"What you are will show in what you do."

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"Great ideas originate in the muscles."

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"Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless."

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"One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success."

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"Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something."

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"There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking."

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"The value of an idea lies in the using of it."

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"Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure."

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"I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun."

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"All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth."

Napoleon Hill, American Writer

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"The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get."

Jim Rohn, American Businessman

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"The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today."

H. Jackson Brown, Jr., American Author

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"Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts."

John Wooden, American Coach

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"Necessity is the mother of taking chances."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats."

Theodore Roosevelt, American President

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"Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster."

Theodore Roosevelt, American President

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"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

Anais Nin, American Author

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"It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen."

Muhammad Ali, American Athlete

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"I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man."

Theodore Roosevelt, American President

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