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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.

Charles Kettering

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Charles Kettering
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 29
Died: 1958
Died: November 25
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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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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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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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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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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 whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
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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 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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No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
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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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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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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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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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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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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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The price of progress is trouble.
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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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The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
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