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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 Franklin Kettering
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Business
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If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.
-Charles Franklin Kettering
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Change
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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
-Charles Franklin Kettering
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Committee
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If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.
-Charles Franklin Kettering
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Common Sense
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A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
-Charles Franklin Kettering
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Creativity
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An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.
-Charles Franklin Kettering
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Failure
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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
-Charles Franklin Kettering
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You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.
-Charles Franklin Kettering
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We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.
-Charles Franklin Kettering
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We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.
-Charles Franklin Kettering
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Future, The
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We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.
-Charles Franklin Kettering
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My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
-Charles Franklin Kettering
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Imagination
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The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.
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Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
-Charles Franklin Kettering
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Opportunity
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There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.
-Charles Franklin Kettering
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Peace
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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
-Charles Franklin Kettering
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Perception
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When I was research head of General Motors and wanted a problem solved, I'd place a table outside the meeting room with a sign: LEAVE SLIDE RULES HERE! If I didn't do that, I'd find some engineer reaching for his slide rule. Then he'd be on his feet saying, Boss you can't do that.
-Charles Franklin Kettering
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Prejudice
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It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
-Charles Franklin Kettering
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Problems
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Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.
-Charles Franklin Kettering
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Right, Rightness
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If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.
-Charles Franklin Kettering
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Success & Failure
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Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.
-Charles Franklin Kettering
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Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
-Charles Franklin Kettering
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Thought
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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
-Charles Franklin Kettering
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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.
-Charles Franklin Kettering
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Tolerance
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People are very open-minded about new things. As long as they are exactly like the old ones.
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Books by and about Charles Franklin Kettering