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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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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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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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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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Every great improvement has come after repeated failures. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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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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A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
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We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
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The difference between intelligence and an education is this: that intelligence will make a good living for you, but education won't do much for you at all.
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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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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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I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
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We have been measuring too much in terms of the dollar. What we should do is think in terms of useful materials-things that will be of value to us in our daily life.
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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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If I have had any success, it's due to luck, but I notice the harder I work, the luckier I get.
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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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