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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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One fails forward toward success.
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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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All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules otherwise we would never have anything new.
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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
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Obsolescence is a factor which says that the new thing I bring you is worth more than the unused value of the old thing.
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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 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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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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I think that the greatest education in the world is the education which helps one to be able to do the right things at the time it has to be done.
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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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It is easy to build a philosophy - it doesn't have to run
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Every honest researcher I know admits he's just a professional amateur. He's doing whatever he's doing for the first time. That makes him an amateur. He has sense enough to know that he's going to have a lot of trouble, so that makes him a professional.
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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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I could do nothing without my problems they toughen my mind. In fact, I tell my assistants not to bring me their successes for they weaken me, but rather to bring me their problems, for they strengthen me.
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Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.
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