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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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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.
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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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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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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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We have reason not to be afraid of the machine, for there is always constructive change, the enemy of machines, making them change to fit new conditions.
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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
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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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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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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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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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