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Every great improvement has come after repeated failures. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
Charles Kettering
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Charles Kettering
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 29
Died: 1958
Died: November 25
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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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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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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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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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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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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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The person who doesn't know something can't be done will often find a way to go ahead and do it.
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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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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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We have reason not to be afraid of the machine, for there is always constructive change, the enemy of machines, making them change to fit new conditions.
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you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.
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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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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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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
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