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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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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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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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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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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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I am not interested in the past. I am interested in the future, for that is where I expect to spend the rest of my life.
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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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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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The price of progress is trouble.
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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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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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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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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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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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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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No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
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It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.
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The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
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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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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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