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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
Engineer
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Charles Franklin Kettering
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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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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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The price of progress is trouble.
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The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.
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We have reason not to be afraid of the machine, for there is always constructive change, the enemy of machines, making them change to fit new conditions.
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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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I am not interested in the past. I am interested in the future, for that is where I expect to spend the rest of my life.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
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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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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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I've never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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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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