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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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you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.
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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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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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People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
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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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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 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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What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.
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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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The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
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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 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 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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99 percent of success is built on failure.
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The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.
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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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It is easy to build a philosophy - it doesn't have to run
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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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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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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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