Charles Franklin Kettering Quotes (26 quotations)
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1. A problem well stated is a problem half solved. - Charles Franklin Kettering
2. An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots. - Charles Franklin Kettering
3. An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously. - Charles Franklin Kettering
4. Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail. - Charles Franklin Kettering
5. Every great improvement has come after repeated failure. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are the posts on the road to achievement. - Charles Franklin Kettering
6. High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. - Charles Franklin Kettering
7. If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it. - Charles Franklin Kettering
8. It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world. - Charles Franklin Kettering
9. Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down. - Charles Franklin Kettering
10. 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. - Charles Franklin Kettering
11. My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid. - Charles Franklin Kettering
12. My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there. - Charles Franklin Kettering
13. One fails forward toward success. - Charles Franklin Kettering
14. Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future. - Charles Franklin Kettering
15. People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people. - Charles Franklin Kettering
16. 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 Franklin Kettering
17. The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution. - Charles Franklin Kettering
18. The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress. - Charles Franklin Kettering
19. The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility. - Charles Franklin Kettering
20. Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax. - Charles Franklin Kettering
21. When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again. - Charles Franklin Kettering
22. Whenever you look at a piece of work and you think the fellow was crazy, then you want to pay some attention to that. One of you is likely to be, and you had better find out which one it is. It makes an awful lot of difference. - Charles Franklin Kettering
23. Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier. - Charles Franklin Kettering
24. You can be sincere and still be stupid. - Charles Franklin Kettering
25. You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time. - Charles Franklin Kettering
26. 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. - Charles Franklin Kettering
2. An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots. - Charles Franklin Kettering
3. An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously. - Charles Franklin Kettering
4. Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail. - Charles Franklin Kettering
5. Every great improvement has come after repeated failure. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are the posts on the road to achievement. - Charles Franklin Kettering
6. High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. - Charles Franklin Kettering
7. If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it. - Charles Franklin Kettering
8. It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world. - Charles Franklin Kettering
9. Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down. - Charles Franklin Kettering
10. 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. - Charles Franklin Kettering
11. My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid. - Charles Franklin Kettering
12. My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there. - Charles Franklin Kettering
13. One fails forward toward success. - Charles Franklin Kettering
14. Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future. - Charles Franklin Kettering
15. People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people. - Charles Franklin Kettering
16. 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 Franklin Kettering
17. The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution. - Charles Franklin Kettering
18. The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress. - Charles Franklin Kettering
19. The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility. - Charles Franklin Kettering
20. Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax. - Charles Franklin Kettering
21. When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again. - Charles Franklin Kettering
22. Whenever you look at a piece of work and you think the fellow was crazy, then you want to pay some attention to that. One of you is likely to be, and you had better find out which one it is. It makes an awful lot of difference. - Charles Franklin Kettering
23. Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier. - Charles Franklin Kettering
24. You can be sincere and still be stupid. - Charles Franklin Kettering
25. You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time. - Charles Franklin Kettering
26. 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. - Charles Franklin Kettering
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