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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

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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We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.
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One fails forward toward success.
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Obsolescence is a factor which says that the new thing I bring you is worth more than the unused value of the old thing.
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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
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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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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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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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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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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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I think that the greatest education in the world is the education which helps one to be able to do the right things at the time it has to be done.
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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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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 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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The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.
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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 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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