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We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.

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Charles Kettering
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 29
Died: 1958
Died: November 25
Engineer
Entrepreneur
Inventor
Derby
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Charles Franklin Kettering
Uncovering
Kindergarten
Science
Things

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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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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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One fails forward toward success.
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Nothing ever built arose to touch the skies unless some man dreamed that it should, some man believed that it could, and some man willed that it must.
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you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.
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We have been measuring too much in terms of the dollar. What we should do is think in terms of useful materials-things that will be of value to us in our daily life.
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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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You are always too late with a development if you are so slow that people demand it before you yourself recognize it. The research department should have foreseen what was necessary and had it ready to a point where people never knew they wanted it until it was made available to them.
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I think that the greatest education in the world is the education which helps one to be able to do the right things at the time it has to be done.
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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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The price of progress is trouble.
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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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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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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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Industry prospers when it offers people articles which they want more than they want anything they now have. The fact is that people never buy what they need. They buy what they want.
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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
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A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
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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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