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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.
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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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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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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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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you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.
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We have been measuring too much in terms of the dollar. What we should do is think in terms of useful materials-things that will be of value to us in our daily life.
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here is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot and not really understand anything.
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What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.
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It is easy to build a philosophy - it doesn't have to run
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Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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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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We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.
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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
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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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No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
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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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