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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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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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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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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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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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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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The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.
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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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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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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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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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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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