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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.

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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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 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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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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One of the things we have to be thankful for is that we don't get as much government as we pay for.
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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
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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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Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
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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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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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The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
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Obsolescence is a factor which says that the new thing I bring you is worth more than the unused value of the old thing.
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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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The difference between intelligence and an education is this: that intelligence will make a good living for you, but education won't do much for you at all.
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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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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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The simplest way to assure sales is to keep changing the product the market for new things is indefinitely elastic. One of the fundamental purposes of advertising, styling, and research is to foster a healthy dissatisfaction.
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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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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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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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