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A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.

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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If I want to stop a research program I can always do it by getting a few experts to sit in on the subject, because they know right away that it was a fool thing to try in the first place.
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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
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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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99 percent of success is built on failure.
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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 sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
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One fails forward toward success.
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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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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
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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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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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The person who doesn't know something can't be done will often find a way to go ahead and do it.
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