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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.
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 could do nothing without my problems they toughen my mind. In fact, I tell my assistants not to bring me their successes for they weaken me, but rather to bring me their problems, for they strengthen me.
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Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
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The price of progress is trouble.
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The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.
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If I want to stop a research program I can always do it by getting a few experts to sit in on the subject, because they know right away that it was a fool thing to try in the first place.
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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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What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.
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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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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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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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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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