Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.Thomas Edison
“If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.”
“If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.”
— THOMAS EDISON
American inventor and businessman · 1847 – 1931
Thomas Edison was an American inventor who developed the phonograph, the motion picture camera and the first practical electric light bulb. He held over a thousand US patents and founded the first industrial research laboratory at Menlo Park, New Jersey.
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