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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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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
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I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
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Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.
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The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
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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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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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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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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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My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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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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