If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.Thomas Edison
“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
— 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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