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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.

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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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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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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No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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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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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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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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Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.
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The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
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The opportunities in this world are as great as we have the imagination to see them... but we never get that view from the bottom of the nest.
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