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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
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Charles Franklin Kettering
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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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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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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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Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.
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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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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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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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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems 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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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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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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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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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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