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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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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 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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People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
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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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I've never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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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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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.
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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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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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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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The price of progress is trouble.
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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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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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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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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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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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