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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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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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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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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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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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I've never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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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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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 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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It is man's destiny to ponder on the riddle of existence and, as a byproduct of his wonderment, to create a new life on this earth.
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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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We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
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