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The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.

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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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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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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I am not interested in the past. I am interested in the future, for that is where I expect to spend the rest of my life.
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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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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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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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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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Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.
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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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It is man's destiny to ponder on the riddle of existence and, as a byproduct of his wonderment, to create a new life on this earth.
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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
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We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
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A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
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One fails forward toward success.
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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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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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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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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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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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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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