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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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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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I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
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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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The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
Charles Kettering
Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
Charles Kettering
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.
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.
Charles Kettering
We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
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The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.
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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 reason not to be afraid of the machine, for there is always constructive change, the enemy of machines, making them change to fit new conditions.
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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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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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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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The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
Charles Kettering
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.
Charles Kettering
If a fellow wants to be nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mailman to somebody on his behalf.
Charles Kettering
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.
Charles Kettering
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.
Charles Kettering
The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
Charles Kettering
