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The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.

Charles Kettering

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Charles Kettering
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 29
Died: 1958
Died: November 25
Engineer
Entrepreneur
Inventor
Derby
Vermont
Charles Franklin Kettering
Economic
Dissatisfaction
Organized
Prosperity
Keys
Creation

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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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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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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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It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.
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Obsolescence is a factor which says that the new thing I bring you is worth more than the unused value of the old thing.
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I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
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