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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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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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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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Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
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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 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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One fails forward toward success.
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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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No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
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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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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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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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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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What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.
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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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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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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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I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
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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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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 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.
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