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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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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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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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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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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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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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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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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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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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you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.
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Education is man's going forward from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.
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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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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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The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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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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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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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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