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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
Engineer
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Charles Franklin Kettering
Men
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Existence
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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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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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The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
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We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
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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 biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.
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It is easy to build a philosophy - it doesn't have to run
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Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
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A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
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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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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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What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.
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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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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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One fails forward toward success.
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All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules otherwise we would never have anything new.
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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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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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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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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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