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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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A problem thoroughly understood is always fairly simple. Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are not true.
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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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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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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems 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 whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
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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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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.
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you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.
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99 percent of success is built on failure.
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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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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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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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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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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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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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I've never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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It is easy to build a philosophy - it doesn't have to run
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It is man's destiny to ponder on the riddle of existence and, as a byproduct of his wonderment, to create a new life on this earth.
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