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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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All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules otherwise we would never have anything new.
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I've never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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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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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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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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We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.
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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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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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The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
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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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The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.
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One fails forward toward success.
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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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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
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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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The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
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You can send a message around the world in one-fifth of a second, yet it may take years for it to get from the outside of a man's head to the inside.
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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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It is easy to build a philosophy - it doesn't have to run
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