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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.

Charles Kettering

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Charles Kettering
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 29
Died: 1958
Died: November 25
Engineer
Entrepreneur
Inventor
Derby
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Charles Franklin Kettering
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Trouble
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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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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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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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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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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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99 percent of success is built on failure.
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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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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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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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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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I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
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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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The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
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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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Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
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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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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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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.
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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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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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