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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.

Charles Kettering

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Charles Kettering
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 29
Died: 1958
Died: November 25
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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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you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.
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