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People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
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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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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One of the things we have to be thankful for is that we don't get as much government as we pay for.
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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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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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We have reason not to be afraid of the machine, for there is always constructive change, the enemy of machines, making them change to fit new conditions.
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And there is the point exactly, we are all the time blaming difficulties on to something else. Our real trouble is that we are too soft to solve the problem.
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The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
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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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It is easy to build a philosophy - it doesn't have to run
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What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.
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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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I think that the greatest education in the world is the education which helps one to be able to do the right things at the time it has to be done.
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If I have had any success, it's due to luck, but I notice the harder I work, the luckier I get.
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99 percent of success is built on failure.
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A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
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If you're doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are you are doing it wrong.
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The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
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