An inventor is simply a person who doesn’t take his education too seriously. You see, from the time a person is six years old until he graduates from college, he has to take three or four examinations a year. If he flunks once, he’s out. But an inventor is almost always failing. He tries and fails, maybe a thousand times. If he succeeds once, he’s in. Those two things are diametrically opposite. We often say that 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.
Content: Quotation
Author: Charles Kettering
Subjects: Education, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Success / Failure
Author: Charles Kettering
Subjects: Education, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Success / Failure
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