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The price of progress is trouble.

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 only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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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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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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Every great improvement has come after repeated failures. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
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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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