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
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  5. Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track. - Criss Jami

More Quotes By Charles Kettering
  1. If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.

  2. Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

  3. It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

  4. 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.

  5. High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

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