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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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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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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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I am not interested in the past. I am interested in the future, for that is where I expect to spend the rest of my life.
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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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Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
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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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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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99 percent of success is built on failure.
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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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Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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Modern psychology teaches that experience is not merely the best teacher, but the only possible teacher.. There is no war between theory and practice. The most valuable experience demands both, and the theory should supplement the practice and not precede it.
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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
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The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.
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The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
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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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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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If you're doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are you are doing it wrong.
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One fails forward toward success.
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