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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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The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
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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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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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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 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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No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
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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 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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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
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I've never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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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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Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
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The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.
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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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The simplest way to assure sales is to keep changing the product the market for new things is indefinitely elastic. One of the fundamental purposes of advertising, styling, and research is to foster a healthy dissatisfaction.
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It is the 'follow through' that makes the great difference between ultimate success and failure, because it is so easy to stop.
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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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If I have had any success, it's due to luck, but I notice the harder I work, the luckier I get.
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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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