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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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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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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
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A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
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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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The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.
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One fails forward toward success.
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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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The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
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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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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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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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We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
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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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We have reason not to be afraid of the machine, for there is always constructive change, the enemy of machines, making them change to fit new conditions.
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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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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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I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
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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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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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