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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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Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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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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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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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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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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The person who doesn't know something can't be done will often find a way to go ahead and do it.
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We work day after day, not to finish things but to make the future better ... because we will spend the rest of our lives there.
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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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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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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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The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
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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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We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.
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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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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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What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.
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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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