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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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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 have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.
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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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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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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 price of progress is trouble.
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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 could do nothing without my problems they toughen my mind. In fact, I tell my assistants not to bring me their successes for they weaken me, but rather to bring me their problems, for they strengthen me.
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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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The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
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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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99 percent of success is built on failure.
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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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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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It is easy to build a philosophy - it doesn't have to run
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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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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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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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