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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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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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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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We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
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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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No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
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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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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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The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.
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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 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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Modern psychology teaches that experience is not merely the best teacher, but the only possible teacher.. There is no war between theory and practice. The most valuable experience demands both, and the theory should supplement the practice and not precede it.
Charles Kettering
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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I've never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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The person who doesn't know something can't be done will often find a way to go ahead and do it.
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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.
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