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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 only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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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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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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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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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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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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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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I've never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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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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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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The price of progress is trouble.
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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.
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The simplest way to assure sales is to keep changing the product the market for new things is indefinitely elastic. One of the fundamental purposes of advertising, styling, and research is to foster a healthy dissatisfaction.
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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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I think that the greatest education in the world is the education which helps one to be able to do the right things at the time it has to be done.
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It is easy to build a philosophy - it doesn't have to run
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