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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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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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It is the 'follow through' that makes the great difference between ultimate success and failure, because it is so easy to stop.
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here is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot and not really understand anything.
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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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One of the things we have to be thankful for is that we don't get as much government as we pay for.
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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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I've never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
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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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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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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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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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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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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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We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
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One fails forward toward success.
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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 man's destiny to ponder on the riddle of existence and, as a byproduct of his wonderment, to create a new life on this earth.
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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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