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No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
Charles Kettering
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Charles Kettering
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 29
Died: 1958
Died: November 25
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Charles Franklin Kettering
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It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.
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The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.
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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.
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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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Education is man's going forward from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.
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Every great improvement has come after repeated failures. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
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My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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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.
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We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.
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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.
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Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
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One of the things we have to be thankful for is that we don't get as much government as we pay for.
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The price of progress is trouble.
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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
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here is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot and not really understand anything.
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A problem thoroughly understood is always fairly simple. Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are not true.
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We have reason not to be afraid of the machine, for there is always constructive change, the enemy of machines, making them change to fit new conditions.
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I don't want men of experience working for me. The experienced man is always telling me why something can't be done. The fellow who has not had any experience is so dumb he doesn't know a thing can't be done - and he goes ahead and does it.
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