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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 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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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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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.
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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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you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.
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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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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
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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 key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.
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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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Obsolescence is a factor which says that the new thing I bring you is worth more than the unused value of the old thing.
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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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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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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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The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
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