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The difference between intelligence and an education is this: that intelligence will make a good living for you, but education won't do much for you at all.
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 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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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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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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Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
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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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Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
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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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No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
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The price of progress is trouble.
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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.
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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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you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.
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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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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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All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules otherwise we would never have anything new.
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The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.
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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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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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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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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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