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The difference between intelligence and an education is this: that intelligence will make a good living for you, but education won't do much for you at all.
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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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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The price of progress is trouble.
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Obsolescence is a factor which says that the new thing I bring you is worth more than the unused value of the old thing.
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I am not interested in the past. I am interested in the future, for that is where I expect to spend the rest of my life.
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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 fails forward toward success.
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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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Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
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You can send a message around the world in one-fifth of a second, yet it may take years for it to get from the outside of a man's head to the inside.
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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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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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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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We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.
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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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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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The opportunities in this world are as great as we have the imagination to see them... but we never get that view from the bottom of the nest.
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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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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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