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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
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Charles Franklin Kettering
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Successes
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One fails forward toward success.
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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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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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All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules otherwise we would never have anything new.
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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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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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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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I think that the greatest education in the world is the education which helps one to be able to do the right things at the time it has to be done.
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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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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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Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
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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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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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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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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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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.
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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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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 you're doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are you are doing it wrong.
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