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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
Engineer
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Charles Franklin Kettering
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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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One of the things we have to be thankful for is that we don't get as much government as we pay for.
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I don't want men of experience working for me. The experienced man is always telling me why something can't be done. The fellow who has not had any experience is so dumb he doesn't know a thing can't be done - and he goes ahead and does it.
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It is the 'follow through' that makes the great difference between ultimate success and failure, because it is so easy to stop.
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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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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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The price of progress is trouble.
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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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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 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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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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No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
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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 Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
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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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A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
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