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I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.

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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99 percent of success is built on failure.
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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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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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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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What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.
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Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
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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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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.
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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 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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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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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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