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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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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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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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Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
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The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
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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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No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
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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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One fails forward toward success.
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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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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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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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I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
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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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Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
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Nothing ever built arose to touch the skies unless some man dreamed that it should, some man believed that it could, and some man willed that it must.
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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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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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The difference between intelligence and an education is this: that intelligence will make a good living for you, but education won't do much for you at all.
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