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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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We have reason not to be afraid of the machine, for there is always constructive change, the enemy of machines, making them change to fit new conditions.
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I think that the greatest education in the world is the education which helps one to be able to do the right things at the time it has to be done.
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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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I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
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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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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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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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If I want to stop a research program I can always do it by getting a few experts to sit in on the subject, because they know right away that it was a fool thing to try in the first place.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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