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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
Weaken
Successes
Strengthen
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Problems
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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
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The price of progress is trouble.
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We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
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Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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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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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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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 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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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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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 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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The person who doesn't know something can't be done will often find a way to go ahead and do it.
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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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