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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More quotes by Charles Kettering
- High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
- The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
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