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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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Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
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Education is man's going forward from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.
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The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
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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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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems 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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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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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 the 'follow through' that makes the great difference between ultimate success and failure, because it is so easy to stop.
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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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Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
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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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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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The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.
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The price of progress is trouble.
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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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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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