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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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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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99 percent of success is built on failure.
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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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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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I could do nothing without my problems they toughen my mind. In fact, I tell my assistants not to bring me their successes for they weaken me, but rather to bring me their problems, for they strengthen me.
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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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We have reason not to be afraid of the machine, for there is always constructive change, the enemy of machines, making them change to fit new conditions.
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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
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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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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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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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The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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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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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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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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I've never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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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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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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