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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.

Charles Kettering

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Charles Kettering
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 29
Died: 1958
Died: November 25
Engineer
Entrepreneur
Inventor
Derby
Vermont
Charles Franklin Kettering
Men
Second
World
Inside
Fifth
Head
Send
Science
Message
Around
Messages
May
Habit
Take
Leadership
Years
Outside

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The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
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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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Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
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We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
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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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And there is the point exactly, we are all the time blaming difficulties on to something else. Our real trouble is that we are too soft to solve the problem.
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Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
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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.
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I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
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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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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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The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
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The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.
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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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Every great improvement has come after repeated failures. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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If I have had any success, it's due to luck, but I notice the harder I work, the luckier I get.
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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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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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