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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
Entrepreneur
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Charles Franklin Kettering
Insanity
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
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Nothing ever built arose to touch the skies unless some man dreamed that it should, some man believed that it could, and some man willed that it must.
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I don't want men of experience working for me. The experienced man is always telling me why something can't be done. The fellow who has not had any experience is so dumb he doesn't know a thing can't be done - and he goes ahead and does it.
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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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Modern psychology teaches that experience is not merely the best teacher, but the only possible teacher.. There is no war between theory and practice. The most valuable experience demands both, and the theory should supplement the practice and not precede it.
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The price of progress is trouble.
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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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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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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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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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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
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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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I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
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