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Despite being plastered across motivational posters worldwide, this quote has no verified connection to Einstein. Quote Investigator found the first attribution to Einstein only in 1995 — four decades after his death — in a newspaper profile. The sentiment itself is far older: versions of the saying appear in print as early as 1832, and in Samuel Smiles' influential 1859 self-help book Self-Help. The two quotes at IDs 46 and 49 in this database are essentially duplicate attributions, representing the same dubious saying in slightly different wording.