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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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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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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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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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The difference between intelligence and an education is this: that intelligence will make a good living for you, but education won't do much for you at all.
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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
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My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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We have reason not to be afraid of the machine, for there is always constructive change, the enemy of machines, making them change to fit new conditions.
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The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.
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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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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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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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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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Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
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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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I think that the greatest education in the world is the education which helps one to be able to do the right things at the time it has to be done.
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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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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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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 must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.
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