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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.
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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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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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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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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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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Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
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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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You are always too late with a development if you are so slow that people demand it before you yourself recognize it. The research department should have foreseen what was necessary and had it ready to a point where people never knew they wanted it until it was made available to them.
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The price of progress is trouble.
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The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
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The difference between intelligence and an education is this: that intelligence will make a good living for you, but education won't do much for you at all.
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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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It is easy to build a philosophy - it doesn't have to run
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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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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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I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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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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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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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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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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