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The opportunities in this world are as great as we have the imagination to see them... but we never get that view from the bottom of the nest.
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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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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99 percent of success is built on failure.
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The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
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One fails forward toward success.
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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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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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The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
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Nothing ever built arose to touch the skies unless some man dreamed that it should, some man believed that it could, and some man willed that it must.
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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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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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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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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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The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
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