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99 percent of success is built on failure.
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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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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Education is man's going forward from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.
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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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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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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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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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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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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.
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I think that the greatest education in the world is the education which helps one to be able to do the right things at the time it has to be done.
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The difference between intelligence and an education is this: that intelligence will make a good living for you, but education won't do much for you at all.
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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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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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Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
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The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.
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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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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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We work day after day, not to finish things but to make the future better ... because we will spend the rest of our lives there.
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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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