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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.

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 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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99 percent of success is built on failure.
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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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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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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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It is easy to build a philosophy - it doesn't have to run
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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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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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A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
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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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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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Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
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The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.
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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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And there is the point exactly, we are all the time blaming difficulties on to something else. Our real trouble is that we are too soft to solve the problem.
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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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