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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 whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
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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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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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I've never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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It is easy to build a philosophy - it doesn't have to run
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Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
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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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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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Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
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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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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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No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
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99 percent of success is built on failure.
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