10 Bits of Advice for College Students from Thomas Edison

 Here are 10 of Thomas Edison's quotes to help college students succeed:

1. If we did all the things we were capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
2. I'm not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
3. The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
4. I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
5. Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
6. The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
7. A genius is a talented person who does his homework.
8. There's a better way to do it. Find it.
9. The reason most people do not recognize opportunity is that it usually goes around wearing overalls, looking like hard work.
10. Results? Why man, I have gotten a lot of results, I know 50,000 things that won't work.

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