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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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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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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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Education is man's going forward from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.
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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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Every great improvement has come after repeated failures. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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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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Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
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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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The price of progress is trouble.
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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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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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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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