Edison calmly but quickly made his way to the fire, through the now hundreds of onlookers and devastated employees, looking for his son. "Go get your mother and all her friends," he told his son with childlike excitement. "They’ll never see a fire like this again." What?! Don’t worry, Edison calmed him. "It’s all right. We’ve just got rid of a lot of rubbish."
Ryan Holiday, The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph, loc. 1782. Kindle Edition