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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.
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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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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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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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I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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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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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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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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The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
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If I want to stop a research program I can always do it by getting a few experts to sit in on the subject, because they know right away that it was a fool thing to try in the first place.
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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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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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you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.
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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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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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Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
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