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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.

Charles Kettering

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Charles Kettering
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 29
Died: 1958
Died: November 25
Engineer
Entrepreneur
Inventor
Derby
Vermont
Charles Franklin Kettering
Notice
Luck
Harder
Success
Work
Luckier
Dues

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here is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot and not really understand anything.
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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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Obsolescence is a factor which says that the new thing I bring you is worth more than the unused value of the old thing.
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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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