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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.

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Charles Kettering
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 29
Died: 1958
Died: November 25
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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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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.
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I've never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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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 biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.
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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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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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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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you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.
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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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Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
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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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Education is man's going forward from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.
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All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules otherwise we would never have anything new.
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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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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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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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