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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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Every honest researcher I know admits he's just a professional amateur. He's doing whatever he's doing for the first time. That makes him an amateur. He has sense enough to know that he's going to have a lot of trouble, so that makes him a professional.
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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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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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Industry prospers when it offers people articles which they want more than they want anything they now have. The fact is that people never buy what they need. They buy what they want.
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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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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
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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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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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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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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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The price of progress is trouble.
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I've never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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If a fellow wants to be nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mailman to somebody on his behalf.
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