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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.
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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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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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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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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No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
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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 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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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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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