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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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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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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 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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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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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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We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.
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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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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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Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
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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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you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.
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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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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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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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I've never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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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 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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
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