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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

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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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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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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We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
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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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All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules otherwise we would never have anything new.
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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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The price of progress is trouble.
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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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It is easy to build a philosophy - it doesn't have to run
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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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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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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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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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One fails forward toward success.
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The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
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I've never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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Modern psychology teaches that experience is not merely the best teacher, but the only possible teacher.. There is no war between theory and practice. The most valuable experience demands both, and the theory should supplement the practice and not precede it.
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