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Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
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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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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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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My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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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 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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I don't want men of experience working for me. The experienced man is always telling me why something can't be done. The fellow who has not had any experience is so dumb he doesn't know a thing can't be done - and he goes ahead and does it.
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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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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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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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Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
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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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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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It is the 'follow through' that makes the great difference between ultimate success and failure, because it is so easy to stop.
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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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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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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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I think that the greatest education in the world is the education which helps one to be able to do the right things at the time it has to be done.
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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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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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