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

Charles Kettering

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Charles Kettering
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 29
Died: 1958
Died: November 25
Engineer
Entrepreneur
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Charles Franklin Kettering
Things
Uncovering
Kindergarten
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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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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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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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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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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 key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.
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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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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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Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
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It is easy to build a philosophy - it doesn't have to run
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A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
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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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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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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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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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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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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 sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
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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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We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.
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