"My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there."
-Charles Kettering
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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.“
-Charles Kettering
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"The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress."
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"Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future."
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"We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world."
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"It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world."
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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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