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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

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You Are Always Too Late With A

Charles Kettering

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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