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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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What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.
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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
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It is easy to build a philosophy - it doesn't have to run
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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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And there is the point exactly, we are all the time blaming difficulties on to something else. Our real trouble is that we are too soft to solve the problem.
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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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No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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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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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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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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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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A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
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A problem thoroughly understood is always fairly simple. Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are not true.
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