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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
Charles Kettering
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Charles Kettering
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 29
Died: 1958
Died: November 25
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Charles Franklin Kettering
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I could do nothing without my problems they toughen my mind. In fact, I tell my assistants not to bring me their successes for they weaken me, but rather to bring me their problems, for they strengthen me.
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Obsolescence is a factor which says that the new thing I bring you is worth more than the unused value of the old thing.
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you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.
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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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We work day after day, not to finish things but to make the future better ... because we will spend the rest of our lives there.
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You are always too late with a development if you are so slow that people demand it before you yourself recognize it. The research department should have foreseen what was necessary and had it ready to a point where people never knew they wanted it until it was made available to them.
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