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Quota of ideas Daily train your mind. Set a quota: so many new ideas per day concerning your work - for example, five ideas per day for one week. You will see that it is most difficult to give out the first five, then they will come to mind themselves. The more ideas you put forward, the greater the chances of winning. Thomas Edison patented 1093 inventions. He firmly believed that one should exercise one’s own mind and the minds of one’s employees, and believed that without a quota of ideas, one would not have achieved so much. His personal quota was equal to one small invention every ten days and one large invention every six months. For Edison, a quota of ideas determined the difference between eating a simple steak and a royal feast.