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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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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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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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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 must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.
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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 only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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We work day after day, not to finish things but to make the future better ... because we will spend the rest of our lives there.
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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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The person who doesn't know something can't be done will often find a way to go ahead and do it.
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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
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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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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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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 key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.
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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 a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.
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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.
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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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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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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.
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