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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 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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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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I've never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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A problem thoroughly understood is always fairly simple. Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are not true.
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You can send a message around the world in one-fifth of a second, yet it may take years for it to get from the outside of a man's head to the inside.
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The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
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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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Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
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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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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 whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
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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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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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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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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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