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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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We have been measuring too much in terms of the dollar. What we should do is think in terms of useful materials-things that will be of value to us in our daily life.
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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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We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.
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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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Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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Nothing ever built arose to touch the skies unless some man dreamed that it should, some man believed that it could, and some man willed that it must.
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It is easy to build a philosophy - it doesn't have to run
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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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One fails forward toward success.
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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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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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The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
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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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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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Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
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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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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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The difference between intelligence and an education is this: that intelligence will make a good living for you, but education won't do much for you at all.
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