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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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I've never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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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 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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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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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
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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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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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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 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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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
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99 percent of success is built on failure.
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And there is the point exactly, we are all the time blaming difficulties on to something else. Our real trouble is that we are too soft to solve the problem.
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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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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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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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Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
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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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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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