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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

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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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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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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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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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 Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
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It is easy to build a philosophy - it doesn't have to run
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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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We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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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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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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We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.
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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 sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
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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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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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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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The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.
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