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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
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Charles Franklin Kettering
Harder
Success
Work
Luckier
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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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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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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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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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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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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
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Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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The simplest way to assure sales is to keep changing the product the market for new things is indefinitely elastic. One of the fundamental purposes of advertising, styling, and research is to foster a healthy dissatisfaction.
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99 percent of success is built on failure.
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Nothing ever built arose to touch the skies unless some man dreamed that it should, some man believed that it could, and some man willed that it must.
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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 key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.
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Education is man's going forward from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.
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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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Industry prospers when it offers people articles which they want more than they want anything they now have. The fact is that people never buy what they need. They buy what they want.
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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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Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
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I could do nothing without my problems they toughen my mind. In fact, I tell my assistants not to bring me their successes for they weaken me, but rather to bring me their problems, for they strengthen me.
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