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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
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Charles Franklin Kettering
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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
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Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
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The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
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We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
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Every great improvement has come after repeated failures. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
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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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One fails forward toward success.
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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
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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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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 must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.
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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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The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
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What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.
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