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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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The price of progress is trouble.
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No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
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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 whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
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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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We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
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The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.
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Every honest researcher I know admits he's just a professional amateur. He's doing whatever he's doing for the first time. That makes him an amateur. He has sense enough to know that he's going to have a lot of trouble, so that makes him a professional.
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Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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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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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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One fails forward toward success.
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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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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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The simplest way to assure sales is to keep changing the product the market for new things is indefinitely elastic. One of the fundamental purposes of advertising, styling, and research is to foster a healthy dissatisfaction.
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One of the things we have to be thankful for is that we don't get as much government as we pay for.
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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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I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
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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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