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It is easy to build a philosophy - it doesn't have to run

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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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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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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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My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
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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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One fails forward toward success.
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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.
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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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One of the things we have to be thankful for is that we don't get as much government as we pay for.
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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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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 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.
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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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99 percent of success is built on failure.
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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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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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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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