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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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Charles Franklin Kettering
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It is easy to build a philosophy - it doesn't have to run
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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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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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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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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.
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I've never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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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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My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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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 key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.
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Education is man's going forward from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.
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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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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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you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.
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99 percent of success is built on failure.
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I think that the greatest education in the world is the education which helps one to be able to do the right things at the time it has to be done.
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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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I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
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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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We work day after day, not to finish things but to make the future better ... because we will spend the rest of our lives there.
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