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We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.
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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99 percent of success is built on failure.
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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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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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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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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
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The opportunities in this world are as great as we have the imagination to see them... but we never get that view from the bottom of the nest.
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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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We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
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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 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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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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A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
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And there is the point exactly, we are all the time blaming difficulties on to something else. Our real trouble is that we are too soft to solve the problem.
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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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I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
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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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