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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.
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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We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.
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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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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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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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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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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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We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
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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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I don't want men of experience working for me. The experienced man is always telling me why something can't be done. The fellow who has not had any experience is so dumb he doesn't know a thing can't be done - and he goes ahead and does it.
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Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.
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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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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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If a fellow wants to be nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mailman to somebody on his behalf.
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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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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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The price of progress is trouble.
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