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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.

Charles Kettering

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Charles Kettering
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 29
Died: 1958
Died: November 25
Engineer
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Charles Franklin Kettering
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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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I could do nothing without my problems they toughen my mind. In fact, I tell my assistants not to bring me their successes for they weaken me, but rather to bring me their problems, for they strengthen me.
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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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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
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We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.
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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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The price of progress is trouble.
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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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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
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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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It is easy to build a philosophy - it doesn't have to run
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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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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
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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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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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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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I've never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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We have been measuring too much in terms of the dollar. What we should do is think in terms of useful materials-things that will be of value to us in our daily life.
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