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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
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Charles Franklin Kettering
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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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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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Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
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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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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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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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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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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.
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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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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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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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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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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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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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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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The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
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Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
Charles Kettering
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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It is the 'follow through' that makes the great difference between ultimate success and failure, because it is so easy to stop.
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you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.
Charles Kettering
