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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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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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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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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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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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I've never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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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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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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Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
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The opportunities in this world are as great as we have the imagination to see them... but we never get that view from the bottom of the nest.
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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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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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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.
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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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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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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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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
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The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.
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