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I am not interested in the past. I am interested in the future, for that is where I expect to spend the rest of my life.

Charles Kettering

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Charles Kettering
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 29
Died: 1958
Died: November 25
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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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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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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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We have reason not to be afraid of the machine, for there is always constructive change, the enemy of machines, making them change to fit new conditions.
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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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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 sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
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We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
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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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One fails forward toward success.
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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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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 person who doesn't know something can't be done will often find a way to go ahead and do it.
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The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
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