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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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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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99 percent of success is built on failure.
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The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.
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The price of progress is trouble.
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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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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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The opportunities in this world are as great as we have the imagination to see them... but we never get that view from the bottom of the nest.
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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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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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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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And there is the point exactly, we are all the time blaming difficulties on to something else. Our real trouble is that we are too soft to solve the problem.
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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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