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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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Charles Franklin Kettering
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Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.
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The simplest way to assure sales is to keep changing the product the market for new things is indefinitely elastic. One of the fundamental purposes of advertising, styling, and research is to foster a healthy dissatisfaction.
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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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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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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
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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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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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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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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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