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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
Engineer
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Charles Franklin Kettering
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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 Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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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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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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If I want to stop a research program I can always do it by getting a few experts to sit in on the subject, because they know right away that it was a fool thing to try in the first place.
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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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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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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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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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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
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I don't want men of experience working for me. The experienced man is always telling me why something can't be done. The fellow who has not had any experience is so dumb he doesn't know a thing can't be done - and he goes ahead and does 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 the 'follow through' that makes the great difference between ultimate success and failure, because it is so easy to stop.
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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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The price of progress is trouble.
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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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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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