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“Everyone steals in commerce and industry. I've stolen a lot, myself. But I know how to steal! They don't know how to steal!”

— Thomas Edison

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Wikiquote: Thomas Edison
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Context

As quoted in Tesla : The Modern Sorcerer (1999) by Daniel Blair Stewart, p. 411

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Edison, Thomas. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Thomas Edison. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Edison

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