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• We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.

  Charles Kettering

  People, World, Models

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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.

  Charles Kettering

  Should Have, People, Too Late

  The Scientific American, p. 243, August 1934.

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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.

  Charles Kettering

  Leadership, Science, Men

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• In many ways ideas are more important than people - they are much more permanent.

  Charles Kettering

  Ideas, People, Important

  Charles Franklin Kettering (1945). “Short Stories of Science and Invention”

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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.

  Charles Kettering

  Jobs, Work, Failure

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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.

  Charles Kettering

  Education, Learning, Differences

  "Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering".

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• Research is industrial prospecting. The oil prospectors use every scientific means to find new paying wells. Oil is found by each one of a number of methods. My own group of men are prospecting in a different field, using every possible scientific means. We believe there are still things left to be discovered. We have only stumbled upon a few barrels of physical laws from the great pool of knowledge. Some day we are going to hit a gusher.

  Charles Kettering

  Believe, Knowledge, Mean

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• Great steps in human progress are made by things that don't work the way philosophy thought they should. If things always worked the way they should, you could write the history of the world from now on. But they don't, and it is those deviations from the normal that make human progress.

  Charles Kettering

  Philosophy, Writing, Science

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• you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.

  Charles Kettering

  Learning, History, Want

  Charles Franklin Kettering (1961). “Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering”

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• The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.

  Charles Kettering

  New Ventures, Discovery, Mind

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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.

  Charles Kettering

  Old Things, Obsolescence, New Things

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• Research is an organized method for keeping you reasonably dissatisfied with what you have.

  Charles Kettering

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

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• I often say that research is a way of finding out what you are going to do when you can't keep on doing what you are doing now.

  Charles Kettering

  Science, Research, Way

  Charles Franklin Kettering (1935). “Industrial Prospecting”

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• There has never been any 30-hour week for men who had anything to do.

  Charles Kettering

  Work, Men, Week

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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.

  Charles Kettering

  Business, Want, Mail

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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

  Business, People, Needs

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• Do not bring me your successes; they weaken me. Bring me your problems; they strengthen me.

  Charles Kettering

  Leadership, Problem

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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.

  Charles Kettering

  Thinking, Dollars, Too Much

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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.

  Charles Kettering

  Real, Learning, Power

  Charles Franklin Kettering (1961). “Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering”

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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

  Opportunity, Views, Imagination

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• The future can be anything we want it to be, providing we have the faith and that we realize that peace, no less than war, required blood and sweat and tears.

  Charles Kettering

  Peace, War, Future

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• Research is an organized method of trying to find out what you are going to do after you cannot do what you are doing now. It may also be said to be the method of keeping a customer reasonably dissatisfied with what he has. That means constant improvement and change so that the customer will be stimulated to desire the new product enough to buy it to replace the one he has.

  Charles Kettering

  Mean, Desire, Trying

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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.

  Charles Kettering

  Science, Healthy, Purpose

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• Bankers regard research as most dangerous a thing that makes banking hazardous due to the rapid changes it brings about in industry.

  Charles Kettering

  Science, Bankers, Banking

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• Don't bring anything to me but trouble.

  Charles Kettering

  Trouble

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