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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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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 person who doesn't know something can't be done will often find a way to go ahead and do it.
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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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here is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot and not really understand anything.
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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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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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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 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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It is easy to build a philosophy - it doesn't have to run
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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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I am not interested in the past. I am interested in the future, for that is where I expect to spend the rest of my life.
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Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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