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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.

Charles Kettering

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Charles Kettering
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 29
Died: 1958
Died: November 25
Engineer
Entrepreneur
Inventor
Derby
Vermont
Charles Franklin Kettering
Weaken
Successes
Strengthen
Leadership
Problems
Bring
Problem

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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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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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We work day after day, not to finish things but to make the future better ... because we will spend the rest of our lives there.
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99 percent of success is built on failure.
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The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
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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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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.
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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 object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
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The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
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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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What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.
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