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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.
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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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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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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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
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Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
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The price of progress is trouble.
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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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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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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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