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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
Charles Kettering
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Charles Kettering
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 29
Died: 1958
Died: November 25
Engineer
Entrepreneur
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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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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.
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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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Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
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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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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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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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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.
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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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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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99 percent of success is built on failure.
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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
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One fails forward toward success.
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