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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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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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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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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Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
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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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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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you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.
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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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Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
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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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99 percent of success is built on failure.
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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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