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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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It is man's destiny to ponder on the riddle of existence and, as a byproduct of his wonderment, to create a new life on this earth.
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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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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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The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
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Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
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Obsolescence is a factor which says that the new thing I bring you is worth more than the unused value of the old thing.
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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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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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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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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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We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
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Every honest researcher I know admits he's just a professional amateur. He's doing whatever he's doing for the first time. That makes him an amateur. He has sense enough to know that he's going to have a lot of trouble, so that makes him a professional.
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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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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
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You are always too late with a development if you are so slow that people demand it before you yourself recognize it. The research department should have foreseen what was necessary and had it ready to a point where people never knew they wanted it until it was made available to them.
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The difference between intelligence and an education is this: that intelligence will make a good living for you, but education won't do much for you at all.
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If you're doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are you are doing it wrong.
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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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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 price of progress is trouble.
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