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It is easy to build a philosophy - it doesn't have to run
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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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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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We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
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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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We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.
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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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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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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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Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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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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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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The person who doesn't know something can't be done will often find a way to go ahead and do it.
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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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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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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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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 key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.
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