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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.
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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The price of progress is trouble.
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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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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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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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It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.
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Every honest researcher I know admits he's just a professional amateur. He's doing whatever he's doing for the first time. That makes him an amateur. He has sense enough to know that he's going to have a lot of trouble, so that makes him a professional.
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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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The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
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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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99 percent of success is built on failure.
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We have reason not to be afraid of the machine, for there is always constructive change, the enemy of machines, making them change to fit new conditions.
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I've never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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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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What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.
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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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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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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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