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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
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Charles Franklin Kettering
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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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It is easy to build a philosophy - it doesn't have to run
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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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What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.
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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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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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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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The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
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No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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If you're doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are you are doing it wrong.
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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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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 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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Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
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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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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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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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I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
Charles Kettering
