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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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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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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We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
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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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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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Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
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You can send a message around the world in one-fifth of a second, yet it may take years for it to get from the outside of a man's head to the inside.
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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 easy to build a philosophy - it doesn't have to run
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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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Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
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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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The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
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One fails forward toward success.
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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
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