Re:Why I Never Hire Brilliant Men (1924)
by bennyg on Thursday March 20, 2014 @11:29PM
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I hate thinking like this. You can't say Edison didn't have a monumental impact in getting electricity to proliferate at reasonable prices across the country.
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No, but you can say he wasn't a genius. In a way that makes his achievements more impressive: he wasn't the smartest kid in class, but he worked hard (and fought dirty) and turned himself into a household name.