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I've never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
Charles Kettering
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Charles Kettering
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 29
Died: 1958
Died: November 25
Engineer
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Charles Franklin Kettering
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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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I could do nothing without my problems they toughen my mind. In fact, I tell my assistants not to bring me their successes for they weaken me, but rather to bring me their problems, for they strengthen me.
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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.
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The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
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Education is man's going forward from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.
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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
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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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Every honest researcher I know admits he's just a professional amateur. He's doing whatever he's doing for the first time. That makes him an amateur. He has sense enough to know that he's going to have a lot of trouble, so that makes him a professional.
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The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.
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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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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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It is the 'follow through' that makes the great difference between ultimate success and failure, because it is so easy to stop.
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The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
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The price of progress is trouble.
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We work day after day, not to finish things but to make the future better ... because we will spend the rest of our lives there.
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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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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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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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