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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.
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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The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.
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I don't want men of experience working for me. The experienced man is always telling me why something can't be done. The fellow who has not had any experience is so dumb he doesn't know a thing can't be done - and he goes ahead and does it.
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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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The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
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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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We have reason not to be afraid of the machine, for there is always constructive change, the enemy of machines, making them change to fit new conditions.
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99 percent of success is built on failure.
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We work day after day, not to finish things but to make the future better ... because we will spend the rest of our lives there.
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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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A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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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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Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
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If I want to stop a research program I can always do it by getting a few experts to sit in on the subject, because they know right away that it was a fool thing to try in the first place.
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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 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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A problem thoroughly understood is always fairly simple. Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are not true.
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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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Obsolescence is a factor which says that the new thing I bring you is worth more than the unused value of the old thing.
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The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
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