Charles Edison

Businessman

1890-08-03 – 1969-07-31

Charles Edison was an American businessman and public official, and the son of Thomas Edison. He served as Governor of New Jersey and later as U.S. Secretary of the Navy. Edison also played a leadership role in the Edison industrial enterprises.

Quotes by Charles Edison

Any man who takes a job with the idea that it is simply a springboard for something else is a chump. His attention will be more on the other things than on the job at hand and so he will fail.
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My goal was to make New Jersey's state government a model for all other states to emulate, hopefully thereby to stem, or at least slow down, the flow of power to the federal government.
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I want to say here and now, that I demand unshakable integrity of every State employee.
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