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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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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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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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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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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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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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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
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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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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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We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
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A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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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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The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
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One fails forward toward success.
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