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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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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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I could do nothing without my problems they toughen my mind. In fact, I tell my assistants not to bring me their successes for they weaken me, but rather to bring me their problems, for they strengthen me.
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Industry prospers when it offers people articles which they want more than they want anything they now have. The fact is that people never buy what they need. They buy what they want.
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We have been measuring too much in terms of the dollar. What we should do is think in terms of useful materials-things that will be of value to us in our daily life.
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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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A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
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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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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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Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
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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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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules otherwise we would never have anything new.
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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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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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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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The price of progress is trouble.
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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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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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99 percent of success is built on failure.
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The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
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