Charles F. Kettering

(10 votes)   People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.

Charles Kettering
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(9 votes)   You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

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(8 votes)   It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.

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(245 votes)   When I was research head of General Motors and wanted a problem solved, I'd place a table outside the meeting room with a sign: LEAVE SLIDE RULES HERE! If I didn't do that, I'd find some engineer reaching for his slide rule. Then he'd be on his feet saying, ''Boss you can't do that.''

Charles F. Kettering
1876-1958, American Engineer, Inventor

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(116 votes)   Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

Charles F. Kettering
1876-1958, American Engineer, Inventor

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(90 votes)   The future can be anything we want it to be, providing we have the faith and that we realize that peace, no less than war, required ''blood and sweat and tears.''

Charles F. Kettering
1876-1958, American Engineer, Inventor

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(75 votes)   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 form college he has to take three or four examinations a year. If he flunks once, he is out. But an inventor is almost always failing. He tries and fails maybe a thousand times. It he succeeds once then he's in. These 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.

Charles F. Kettering
1876-1958, American Engineer, Inventor

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(70 votes)   It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.

Charles F. Kettering
1876-1958, American Engineer, Inventor

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(46 votes)   If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Charles F. Kettering
1876-1958, American Engineer, Inventor

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(21 votes)   The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.

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(16 votes)   It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

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(15 votes)   If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.

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(13 votes)   A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.

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(12 votes)   Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.

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(12 votes)   Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

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