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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
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Charles Franklin Kettering
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The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
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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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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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I've never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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Modern psychology teaches that experience is not merely the best teacher, but the only possible teacher.. There is no war between theory and practice. The most valuable experience demands both, and the theory should supplement the practice and not precede it.
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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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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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The opportunities in this world are as great as we have the imagination to see them... but we never get that view from the bottom of the nest.
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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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The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.
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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
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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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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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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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