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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
Luckier
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Notice
Luck
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Success
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It is man's destiny to ponder on the riddle of existence and, as a byproduct of his wonderment, to create a new life on this earth.
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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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I don't want men of experience working for me. The experienced man is always telling me why something can't be done. The fellow who has not had any experience is so dumb he doesn't know a thing can't be done - and he goes ahead and does it.
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It is easy to build a philosophy - it doesn't have to run
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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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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
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We have been measuring too much in terms of the dollar. What we should do is think in terms of useful materials-things that will be of value to us in our daily life.
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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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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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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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99 percent of success is built on failure.
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I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
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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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Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
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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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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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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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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 are always too late with a development if you are so slow that people demand it before you yourself recognize it. The research department should have foreseen what was necessary and had it ready to a point where people never knew they wanted it until it was made available to them.
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