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The price of progress is trouble.

Charles Kettering

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Charles Kettering
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 29
Died: 1958
Died: November 25
Engineer
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Charles Franklin Kettering
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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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I think that the greatest education in the world is the education which helps one to be able to do the right things at the time it has to be done.
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One fails forward toward success.
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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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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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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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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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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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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.
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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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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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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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you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.
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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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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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