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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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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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People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
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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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If you're doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are you are doing it wrong.
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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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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 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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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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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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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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The simplest way to assure sales is to keep changing the product the market for new things is indefinitely elastic. One of the fundamental purposes of advertising, styling, and research is to foster a healthy dissatisfaction.
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It is man's destiny to ponder on the riddle of existence and, as a byproduct of his wonderment, to create a new life on this earth.
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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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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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A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
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The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.
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