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No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
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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What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.
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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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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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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
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If you're doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are you are doing it wrong.
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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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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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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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People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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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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Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
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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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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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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.
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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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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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