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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.

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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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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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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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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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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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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Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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