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on Monday, November 16, 2020Thomas A. Edison Money Quote saying that the country should be able to print currency and not only bonds. Thomas A. Edison said:
“It is absurd to say our country can issue bonds and cannot issue currency. Both are promises to pay, but one fattens the usurer and the other helps the people” — Thomas A. Edison
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Thomas Edison: Sale Utility
on Thursday, July 16, 2020Thomas Edison Money Quote saying there’s no point to inventing things that nobody buys or wants. Sales prove utility. Thomas Edison said:
“Anything that won’t sell, I don’t want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success” — Thomas Edison
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Thomas Edison: Sun & Solar Energy Money
on Monday, October 15, 2018Thomas Edison Money Quote saying he would bet on solar energy because it was so readily available – he’d have lost that bet during his lifetime but seems to have expected a long wait – until fossil fuels were exhausted. Thomas Edison said:
“I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don’t have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that” — Thomas Edison
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Thomas Edison: Money Value of Invention
on Sunday, October 14, 2018Thomas Edison Money Quote saying he had a sixth sense (or physical gland) which tells him how valuable an invention might be in the marketplace. Thomas Edison said:
“The point in which I am different from most inventors is that I have, besides the usual inventor’s make-up, the bump of practicality as a sort of appendix, the sense of the business, money value of an invention” — Thomas Edison
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Thomas Edison: Inventor Costly Amusement
on Saturday, October 13, 2018Thomas Edison Money Quote saying inventors pay less attention to marketability than personal interest in their inventions and end up creating expenses only. Thomas Edison said:
“Most inventors who have an idea never stop to think whether their invention will be saleable when they get it made. Unless a man has plenty of money to throw away, he will find that making inventions is about the costliest amusement he can find” — Thomas Edison
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Thomas Edison: Main Purpose, Make Money
on Friday, October 12, 2018Thomas Edison Money Quote saying learn what the market wants and create it when it doesn’t yet exist in order to make money to continue invention. Thomas Edison said:
“I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent. My main purpose in life is to make money so that I can afford to go on creating more inventions” — Thomas Edison
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Thomas Edison: Middleman Dollars & Cents
on Thursday, October 11, 2018Thomas Edison Money Quote saying he brought the crazy ideas of inventors to profit by turning them into marketable products or commodities. Thomas Edison said:
“I am a sort of middleman between the long-haired and impractical inventor and the hard-headed businessman 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” — Thomas Edison
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Thomas Edison: Government Debt Brokers
on Tuesday, December 26, 2017Thomas A. Edison Money Quote saying that bankers are controlling the national wealth (and debt) by charging the government interest while contributing nothing. Thomas A. Edison said:
“It is a terrible situation when the Government, to insure the National Wealth, must go in debt and submit to ruinous interest charges at the hands of men who control the fictitious value of gold” — Thomas A. Edison
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