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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
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Charles Franklin Kettering
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Head
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Science
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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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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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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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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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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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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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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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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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One of the things we have to be thankful for is that we don't get as much government as we pay for.
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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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99 percent of success is built on failure.
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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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you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.
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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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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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