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One fails forward toward success.

Charles Kettering

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Charles Kettering
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 29
Died: 1958
Died: November 25
Engineer
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Charles Franklin Kettering
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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It is easy to build a philosophy - it doesn't have to run
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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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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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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
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It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.
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Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
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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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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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We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.
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You are always too late with a development if you are so slow that people demand it before you yourself recognize it. The research department should have foreseen what was necessary and had it ready to a point where people never knew they wanted it until it was made available to them.
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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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We have been measuring too much in terms of the dollar. What we should do is think in terms of useful materials-things that will be of value to us in our daily 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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I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
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