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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.
Charles Kettering
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Charles Kettering
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 29
Died: 1958
Died: November 25
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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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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
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If a fellow wants to be nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mailman to somebody on his behalf.
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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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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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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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It is the 'follow through' that makes the great difference between ultimate success and failure, because it is so easy to stop.
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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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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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Industry prospers when it offers people articles which they want more than they want anything they now have. The fact is that people never buy what they need. They buy what they want.
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