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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.
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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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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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The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
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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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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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Modern psychology teaches that experience is not merely the best teacher, but the only possible teacher.. There is no war between theory and practice. The most valuable experience demands both, and the theory should supplement the practice and not precede it.
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