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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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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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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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The price of progress is trouble.
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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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I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life 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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Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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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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you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.
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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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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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The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
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The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.
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The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.
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The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
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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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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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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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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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