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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.
Charles Kettering
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Charles Kettering
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 29
Died: 1958
Died: November 25
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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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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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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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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.
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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.
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99 percent of success is built on failure.
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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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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
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You can send a message around the world in one-fifth of a second, yet it may take years for it to get from the outside of a man's head to the inside.
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