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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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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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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
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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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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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Every great improvement has come after repeated failures. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
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We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
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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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I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
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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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I am not interested in the past. I am interested in the future, for that is where I expect to spend the rest of my life.
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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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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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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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The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.
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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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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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