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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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We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
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My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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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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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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You are always too late with a development if you are so slow that people demand it before you yourself recognize it. The research department should have foreseen what was necessary and had it ready to a point where people never knew they wanted it until it was made available to them.
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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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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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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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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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