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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.
Charles Kettering
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Charles Kettering
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 29
Died: 1958
Died: November 25
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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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The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
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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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We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.
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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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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 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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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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you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.
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A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
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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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The opportunities in this world are as great as we have the imagination to see them... but we never get that view from the bottom of the nest.
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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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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.
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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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