“Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all…” Thomas Edison | Leadershipology

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Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

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Source: From the book as quoted in Ford Times, Thomas Edison, as quoted in Ford Times, Vol. 6, (1912), p. 136.

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