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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.
Charles Kettering
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Charles Kettering
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 29
Died: 1958
Died: November 25
Engineer
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Charles Franklin Kettering
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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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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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No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
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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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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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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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The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.
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Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
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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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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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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 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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What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.
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