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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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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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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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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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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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The price of progress is trouble.
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The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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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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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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It is easy to build a philosophy - it doesn't have to run
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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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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 whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
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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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We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
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