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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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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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The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
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It is the 'follow through' that makes the great difference between ultimate success and failure, because it is so easy to stop.
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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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If you're doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are you are doing it wrong.
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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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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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Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
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My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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Every honest researcher I know admits he's just a professional amateur. He's doing whatever he's doing for the first time. That makes him an amateur. He has sense enough to know that he's going to have a lot of trouble, so that makes him a professional.
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If I have had any success, it's due to luck, but I notice the harder I work, the luckier I get.
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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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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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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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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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The person who doesn't know something can't be done will often find a way to go ahead and do it.
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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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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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The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
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I've never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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