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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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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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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 object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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If I have had any success, it's due to luck, but I notice the harder I work, the luckier I get.
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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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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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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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Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
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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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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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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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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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