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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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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.
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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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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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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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All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules otherwise we would never have anything new.
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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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Nothing ever built arose to touch the skies unless some man dreamed that it should, some man believed that it could, and some man willed that it must.
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A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
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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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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.
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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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Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
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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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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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One fails forward toward success.
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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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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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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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