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 someone reaching for his slide rule. Then he'd be on his feet saying, 'Boss, you can't do it.'
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Take good care of your future because that's where you're going to spend the rest of your life.Charles Franklin Kettering
Whenever you look at a piece of work and you think the fellow was crazy, then you want to pay some attention to that. One of you is likely to be, and you had better find out which one it is. It makes an awful lot of difference.
Charles Franklin Kettering
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 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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In many ways ideas are more important than people they are much more permanent.
Charles Franklin Kettering
Research Finding out what you are going to do when you cannot keep on doing what you are doing now.
Charles Franklin Kettering
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