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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
Engineer
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Charles Franklin Kettering
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We have reason not to be afraid of the machine, for there is always constructive change, the enemy of machines, making them change to fit new conditions.
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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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Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.
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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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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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The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
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I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
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Nothing ever built arose to touch the skies unless some man dreamed that it should, some man believed that it could, and some man willed that it must.
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99 percent of success is built on failure.
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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
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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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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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One fails forward toward success.
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It is easy to build a philosophy - it doesn't have to run
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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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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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The price of progress is trouble.
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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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