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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
Inventor
Derby
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Charles Franklin Kettering
Bring
Trouble
Anything

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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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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 have had any success, it's due to luck, but I notice the harder I work, the luckier I get.
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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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The price of progress is trouble.
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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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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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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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here is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot and not really understand anything.
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All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules otherwise we would never have anything new.
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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 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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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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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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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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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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Every honest researcher I know admits he's just a professional amateur. He's doing whatever he's doing for the first time. That makes him an amateur. He has sense enough to know that he's going to have a lot of trouble, so that makes him a professional.
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