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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.
Charles Kettering

Biography

Author Profession: Inventor
Nationality: American
Born: August 29, 1876
Died: November 25, 1958

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If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.
Charles Kettering

People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.
Charles Kettering

The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.
Charles Kettering

Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
Charles Kettering

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
Charles Kettering

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
Charles Kettering

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
Charles Kettering

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