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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.

Charles Kettering

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Charles Kettering
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 29
Died: 1958
Died: November 25
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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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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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No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
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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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You are always too late with a development if you are so slow that people demand it before you yourself recognize it. The research department should have foreseen what was necessary and had it ready to a point where people never knew they wanted it until it was made available to them.
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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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Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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One fails forward toward success.
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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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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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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 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 only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.
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It is man's destiny to ponder on the riddle of existence and, as a byproduct of his wonderment, to create a new life on this earth.
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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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We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.
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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 I want to stop a research program I can always do it by getting a few experts to sit in on the subject, because they know right away that it was a fool thing to try in the first place.
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