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An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of oth...

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The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there...

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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to tra...

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Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expectin...

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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.

It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.

One fails forward toward success.

We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives ther...

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Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze ...

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Charles Kettering

Inventor

Born: 1876-08-29

Died: 1958-11-25

Charles Franklin Kettering (29 August 1876 - 24 or 25 November 1958) was an American inventor and social philosopher.More