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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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Charles Franklin Kettering
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The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.
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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
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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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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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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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Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
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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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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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Modern psychology teaches that experience is not merely the best teacher, but the only possible teacher.. There is no war between theory and practice. The most valuable experience demands both, and the theory should supplement the practice and not precede it.
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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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A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.
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