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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 whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
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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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One fails forward toward success.
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Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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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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If I want to stop a research program I can always do it by getting a few experts to sit in on the subject, because they know right away that it was a fool thing to try in the first place.
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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 Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
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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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