Quote by Charles Kettering
The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to

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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I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there. – Charles Kettering

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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. – Charles Kettering

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You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work. – Paul McCartney

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I dont feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat. – Hank Aaron

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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want. – Proverb

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