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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
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Charles Franklin Kettering
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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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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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We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.
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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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I've never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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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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You are always too late with a development if you are so slow that people demand it before you yourself recognize it. The research department should have foreseen what was necessary and had it ready to a point where people never knew they wanted it until it was made available to them.
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If you're doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are you are doing it wrong.
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All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules otherwise we would never have anything new.
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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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Modern psychology teaches that experience is not merely the best teacher, but the only possible teacher.. There is no war between theory and practice. The most valuable experience demands both, and the theory should supplement the practice and not precede 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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We have been measuring too much in terms of the dollar. What we should do is think in terms of useful materials-things that will be of value to us in our daily life.
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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 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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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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Every great improvement has come after repeated failures. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
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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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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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