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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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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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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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Every honest researcher I know admits he's just a professional amateur. He's doing whatever he's doing for the first time. That makes him an amateur. He has sense enough to know that he's going to have a lot of trouble, so that makes him a professional.
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We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
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The price of progress is trouble.
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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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One fails forward toward success.
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We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.
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A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
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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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If I have had any success, it's due to luck, but I notice the harder I work, the luckier I get.
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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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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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I've never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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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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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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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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The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.
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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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