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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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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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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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A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
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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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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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The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
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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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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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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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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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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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I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
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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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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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99 percent of success is built on failure.
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here is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot and not really understand anything.
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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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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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