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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
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Charles Franklin Kettering
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The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.
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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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you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.
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You are always too late with a development if you are so slow that people demand it before you yourself recognize it. The research department should have foreseen what was necessary and had it ready to a point where people never knew they wanted it until it was made available to them.
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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 object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
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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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One fails forward toward success.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The price of progress is trouble.
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It is man's destiny to ponder on the riddle of existence and, as a byproduct of his wonderment, to create a new life on this earth.
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It is easy to build a philosophy - it doesn't have to run
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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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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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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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