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What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.

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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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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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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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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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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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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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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One fails forward toward success.
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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 have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.
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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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We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems 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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The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.
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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.
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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 time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
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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 object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
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