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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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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 a fellow wants to be nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mailman to somebody on his behalf.
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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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What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.
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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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The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
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No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
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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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A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
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