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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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you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.
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The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
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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 have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.
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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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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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I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
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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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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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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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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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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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99 percent of success is built on failure.
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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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Obsolescence is a factor which says that the new thing I bring you is worth more than the unused value of the old thing.
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Modern psychology teaches that experience is not merely the best teacher, but the only possible teacher.. There is no war between theory and practice. The most valuable experience demands both, and the theory should supplement the practice and not precede it.
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One of the things we have to be thankful for is that we don't get as much government as we pay for.
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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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