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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
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Charles Franklin Kettering
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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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Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
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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.
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You are always too late with a development if you are so slow that people demand it before you yourself recognize it. The research department should have foreseen what was necessary and had it ready to a point where people never knew they wanted it until it was made available to them.
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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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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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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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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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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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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
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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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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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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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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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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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Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
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The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.
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If I want to stop a research program I can always do it by getting a few experts to sit in on the subject, because they know right away that it was a fool thing to try in the first place.
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The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
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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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