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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.
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 must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.
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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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No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
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What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.
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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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The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
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