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The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.

Charles Kettering

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Charles Kettering
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 29
Died: 1958
Died: November 25
Engineer
Entrepreneur
Inventor
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Charles Franklin Kettering
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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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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
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What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.
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