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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
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Charles Franklin Kettering
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Trouble
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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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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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People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
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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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you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.
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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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Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
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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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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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The price of progress is trouble.
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The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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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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A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
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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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I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
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