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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.
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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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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Every honest researcher I know admits he's just a professional amateur. He's doing whatever he's doing for the first time. That makes him an amateur. He has sense enough to know that he's going to have a lot of trouble, so that makes him a professional.
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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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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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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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One fails forward toward success.
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Nothing ever built arose to touch the skies unless some man dreamed that it should, some man believed that it could, and some man willed that it must.
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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 have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.
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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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If a fellow wants to be nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mailman to somebody on his behalf.
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Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.
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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
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