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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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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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We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
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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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Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
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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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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.
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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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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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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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The price of progress is trouble.
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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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99 percent of success is built on failure.
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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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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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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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It is easy to build a philosophy - it doesn't have to run
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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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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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You can send a message around the world in one-fifth of a second, yet it may take years for it to get from the outside of a man's head to the inside.
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