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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
Impossible
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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
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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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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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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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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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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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What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.
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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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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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A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
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