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Charles Kettering Inspirational Quotes (65)

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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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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
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We have been measuring too much in terms of the dollar. What we should do is think in terms of useful materials-things that will be of value to us in our daily life.
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The person who doesn't know something can't be done will often find a way to go ahead and do it.
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It is easy to build a philosophy - it doesn't have to run
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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 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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Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.
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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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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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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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you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.
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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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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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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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One of the things we have to be thankful for is that we don't get as much government as we pay for.
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The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
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Modern psychology teaches that experience is not merely the best teacher, but the only possible teacher.. There is no war between theory and practice. The most valuable experience demands both, and the theory should supplement the practice and not precede it.
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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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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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You can send a message around the world in one-fifth of a second, yet it may take years for it to get from the outside of a man's head to the inside.
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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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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
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