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The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
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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Every great improvement has come after repeated failures. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
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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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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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99 percent of success is built on failure.
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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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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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I could do nothing without my problems they toughen my mind. In fact, I tell my assistants not to bring me their successes for they weaken me, but rather to bring me their problems, for they strengthen me.
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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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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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We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.
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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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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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Modern psychology teaches that experience is not merely the best teacher, but the only possible teacher.. There is no war between theory and practice. The most valuable experience demands both, and the theory should supplement the practice and not precede 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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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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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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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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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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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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If I have had any success, it's due to luck, but I notice the harder I work, the luckier I get.
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