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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
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Charles Franklin Kettering
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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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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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99 percent of success is built on failure.
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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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Industry prospers when it offers people articles which they want more than they want anything they now have. The fact is that people never buy what they need. They buy what they want.
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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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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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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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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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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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We have been measuring too much in terms of the dollar. What we should do is think in terms of useful materials-things that will be of value to us in our daily life.
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The opportunities in this world are as great as we have the imagination to see them... but we never get that view from the bottom of the nest.
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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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What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.
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I've never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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