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102 Clessie Cummins Quotes (Clessie Lyle Cummins, Cummins Engine Quotes)
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Mechanical difficulty… can always be whipped.
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Our greatest trouble has been caused by following too closely old, accepted formulas.
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An amazing idea flashed before me….
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I am going after it and furthermore I am going to get it.
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Innovation you can depend on.
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I want to… make things.
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[On the world of work and wages.] The practical classroom.
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[In 1904 when he quit school in grade 8] I want to be a machinist and make things.
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[On setting up the Cummins Engine Company (Now Cummins, Inc) in February 20, 1919 and sizing up the company’s physical assets. Receiving $19,350 in stock for these assets even though he estimated them being worth $25,000] I much preferred to take a personal licking on the equipment, than to have a company with too little capital.
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[On the great depression in 1930 causing sales to evaporate on every front and W.G. Irwin saying on the 15th of December 1930 that it was time to cut their losses and liquidate the firm] As I sat along in the gloom of my tiny office. I picked up the latest issue of a trade magazine… An amazing idea flashed before me…. [Then he called H. L Knudsen and told him to bring a U Engine down to the office when asked why] We’re going to Indianapolis to find an automobile that will take Model U engine. [Then beginning the course of events that ultimately drew Cummins Engine into the automotive market, saved the company, and chartered a successful course for the future.]
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[In 1932] one of my big dreams is the substitution of the Diesel for the steam locomotive.
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Looks like we can count on a nice share of business in this big yacht field…
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People who have plenty of money and the desire for high speed… will go to any extreme to get it.
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I am trying to find out… whether I am up against a real for sure wall.
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[P. T.] Barnum and Bailey days.
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We ran a three ring circus with racing…
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A Cummins diesel engine could go 10,000 miles without stopping.
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Astronomical odds against such a procedure…
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Best and safest…
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We were caught with a heavy inventory on our hands.
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We were assured that in taking out a license … We were all more or less misled…
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I constantly had in mind an engine that would not be subject to the weaknesses…
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If we go after it…
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I am going to get it.
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We had found the answer to the problems confronting us…
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They… leave the manufacturer out in the cold.
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We are just out of the early experimental stage.
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We have enough ammunition laid up here to snow you under…
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The first plan is to get engines out in some manner and establish ourselves…
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It is pretty hard to sell anyone except a good friend on the oil engine idea at this time.
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I have worked hard…
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My salary is about what I could make in a good machine shop with no responsibility…
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I believe… we should do everything in our power…
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Being discouraged… has kept me in a quandary. I am blowing hot one day and cold the next.
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I am trying to find out in my own mind if I am allowing my own personal needs of the moment to warp my judgement or whether I am up against a real for sure wall.
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Self preservation is a strong instinct and hard to dismiss.
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I picked up the latest issue of a trade magazine…
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We’re going to Indianapolis to find an automobile that will take Model U engine.
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[In April 1929] The common use of diesel engines for motorcars is not near. Eventually it will come, but there is no economic need for it now. [Six months later the need came.]
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[On driving his Cummins diesel powered Packard to the National Automobile Show in New York on January 6, 1930 when it had logged only a grand total of ten miles with the Cummins power plant] We ran a three ring circus with racing, transcontinental runs, endurance tests, bus and truck records, and what not… [P. T.] Barnum and Bailey days.
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