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99 percent of success is built on failure.
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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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.
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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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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
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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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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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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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The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.
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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 object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
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It is the 'follow through' that makes the great difference between ultimate success and failure, because it is so easy to stop.
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My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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I've never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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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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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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