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Charles Kettering: The biggest job...

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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.

Source: In A Kick in the Seat of the Pants, by Roger von Oech, 1986.
-- Charles Kettering, (Aug 29 1876-1958), US engineer, inventor; Boss; invented the electric starter, 1911 and the electric cash register.


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