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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.
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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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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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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We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
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The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.
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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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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
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A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
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The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
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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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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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I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
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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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We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.
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We have reason not to be afraid of the machine, for there is always constructive change, the enemy of machines, making them change to fit new conditions.
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The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
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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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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.
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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 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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