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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 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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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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If I want to stop a research program I can always do it by getting a few experts to sit in on the subject, because they know right away that it was a fool thing to try in the first place.
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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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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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No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
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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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