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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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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Education is man's going forward from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.
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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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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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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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Nothing ever built arose to touch the skies unless some man dreamed that it should, some man believed that it could, and some man willed that it must.
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A problem thoroughly understood is always fairly simple. Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are not true.
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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.
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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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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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99 percent of success is built on failure.
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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
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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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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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It is the 'follow through' that makes the great difference between ultimate success and failure, because it is so easy to stop.
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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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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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I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
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