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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.
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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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 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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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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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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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 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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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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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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One fails forward toward success.
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We work day after day, not to finish things but to make the future better ... because we will spend the rest of our lives there.
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