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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.
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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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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No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
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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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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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It is the 'follow through' that makes the great difference between ultimate success and failure, because it is so easy to stop.
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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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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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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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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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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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