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One fails forward toward success.
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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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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The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
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It is man's destiny to ponder on the riddle of existence and, as a byproduct of his wonderment, to create a new life on this earth.
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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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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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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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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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I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 price of progress is trouble.
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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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