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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
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Charles Franklin Kettering
Problems
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Successes
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Leadership

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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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Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
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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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Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.
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People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
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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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And there is the point exactly, we are all the time blaming difficulties on to something else. Our real trouble is that we are too soft to solve the problem.
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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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The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.
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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 is the 'follow through' that makes the great difference between ultimate success and failure, because it is so easy to stop.
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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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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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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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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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It is easy to build a philosophy - it doesn't have to run
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Education is man's going forward from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.
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We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
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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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