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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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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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Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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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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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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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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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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And there is the point exactly, we are all the time blaming difficulties on to something else. Our real trouble is that we are too soft to solve the problem.
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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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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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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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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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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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A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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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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I've never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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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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99 percent of success is built on failure.
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