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A Little Thomas Edison If You Don't Mind
 
I drove Susan to the dentist (one car is in the shop) the other day and as I was in the waiting room reading a book called “Brush Your Teeth”, I saw a great quote about opportunity. The quote was attributed Thomas Edison. Here is the quote:
 
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
 
To me, this was not only a brilliant quote, but it reminded me of our business. It seems many people are afraid of staffing because it looks like too much work; the work of worrying about where they will be, if they will be, and how long will they be. There's also the perceived notion that contract always gets the most work dumped on them. Anyway, I started reading about this amazing person named Thomas Edison, and I don’t have enough room to summarize everything he did, but thomasedison.com summed him up very nicely when it said:
 
"He led no armies into battle, he conquered no countries, and he enslaved no peoples... Nonetheless, he exerted a degree of power the magnitude of which no warrior ever dreamed. His name still commands a respect as sweeping in scope and as world-wide as that of any other mortal - a devotion rooted deep in human gratitude and untainted by the bias that is often associated with race, color, politics, and religion."
 
Consequently, I am picking some of my favorite information and quotes based on the time I had to research thomasedison.com. I hope you enjoy.
 
Thomas Edison’s greatest invention was not the light bulb. It was providing light and power to the masses. Thomas Edison had a gift for making the most out of what life gave him. After losing most of his hearing, he refused to have an operation to restore his hearing for fear that it would interfere with his thinking in a noisy world.
 
Meltdown in the Supermarket (Joke of the Week)
 
A father went grocery shopping with his 3-year-old boy. Perhaps inevitably, the boy began to pout in the middle of their trip to the grocery store, and he would not stop no matter what the father did.
 
Toward the end of the trip, an elderly woman came up behind the young man and the little boy, still screaming at the top of his lungs. Despite all of the commotion, the woman heard the father saying, gently, "It's OK, Billy. We'll be done in just a second, Billy. Calm down, Billy, we'll be outta here in no time."
 
The woman, impressed by the man's composure, tapped him on the shoulder and said, "I'm sorry, but I just had to let you know that you are the most patient, kind and understanding father I've ever seen. Little Billy's a lucky boy."
 
The father replied, "Oh no, ma'am, you misunderstand. This is Josh; I'm Billy!"
 
More Edison Quotes
 
"The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend" "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work"
 
"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."
 
"Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something."
 
"If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves."
 
"I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world."
 
"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."
 
"Be courageous! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation...."
 
"Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward"
 
― Thomas Alva Edison