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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.

Charles Kettering

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Charles Kettering
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 29
Died: 1958
Died: November 25
Engineer
Entrepreneur
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Charles Franklin Kettering
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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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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 only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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One fails forward toward success.
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Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
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A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
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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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You can send a message around the world in one-fifth of a second, yet it may take years for it to get from the outside of a man's head to the inside.
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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
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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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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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you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.
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If a fellow wants to be nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mailman to somebody on his behalf.
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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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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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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
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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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