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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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If I have had any success, it's due to luck, but I notice the harder I work, the luckier I get.
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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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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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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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you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.
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We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
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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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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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Nothing ever built arose to touch the skies unless some man dreamed that it should, some man believed that it could, and some man willed that it must.
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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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