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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.

Charles Kettering

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Charles Kettering
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 29
Died: 1958
Died: November 25
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Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
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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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The price of progress is trouble.
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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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Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
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I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
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The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
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The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.
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A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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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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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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Industry prospers when it offers people articles which they want more than they want anything they now have. The fact is that people never buy what they need. They buy what they want.
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