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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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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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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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A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
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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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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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The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
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Nothing ever built arose to touch the skies unless some man dreamed that it should, some man believed that it could, and some man willed that it must.
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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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It is easy to build a philosophy - it doesn't have to run
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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 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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Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
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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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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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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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Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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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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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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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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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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