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A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.

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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Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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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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Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
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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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you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.
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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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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 is easy to build a philosophy - it doesn't have to run
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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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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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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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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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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.
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Modern psychology teaches that experience is not merely the best teacher, but the only possible teacher.. There is no war between theory and practice. The most valuable experience demands both, and the theory should supplement the practice and not precede it.
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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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The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
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One fails forward toward success.
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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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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 Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
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