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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
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Charles Franklin Kettering
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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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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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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
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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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you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.
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99 percent of success is built on failure.
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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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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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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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The opportunities in this world are as great as we have the imagination to see them... but we never get that view from the bottom of the nest.
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