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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.
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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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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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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We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
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A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
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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 time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
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I've never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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99 percent of success is built on failure.
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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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Industry prospers when it offers people articles which they want more than they want anything they now have. The fact is that people never buy what they need. They buy what they want.
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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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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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The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
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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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And there is the point exactly, we are all the time blaming difficulties on to something else. Our real trouble is that we are too soft to solve the problem.
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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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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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What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.
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