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Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
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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I don't want men of experience working for me. The experienced man is always telling me why something can't be done. The fellow who has not had any experience is so dumb he doesn't know a thing can't be done - and he goes ahead and does it.
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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 person who doesn't know something can't be done will often find a way to go ahead and do it.
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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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Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules otherwise we would never have anything new.
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No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
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One fails forward toward success.
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We have been measuring too much in terms of the dollar. What we should do is think in terms of useful materials-things that will be of value to us in our daily life.
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Industry prospers when it offers people articles which they want more than they want anything they now have. The fact is that people never buy what they need. They buy what they want.
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The difference between intelligence and an education is this: that intelligence will make a good living for you, but education won't do much for you at all.
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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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