Charles Kettering quotes - page 2

It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world. (Charles Kettering)
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. View quote
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There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier. View quote
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Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress. View quote
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I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there. View quote
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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow. View quote
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People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people. View quote
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People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones. View quote
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Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me. View quote
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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try. View quote
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A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere. (Charles Kettering)
The difference between intelligence and education is this: intelligence will make you a good living. View quote
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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. View quote
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I don't want men of experience working for me. The experienced man is always telling me why something can't be done. The fellow who has not had any experience is so dumb he doesn't know a thing can't be done - and he goes ahead and does it. View quote
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I think that the greatest education in the world is the education which helps one to be able to do the right things at the time it has to be done. View quote
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If we taught music the way we try to teach engineering, in an unbroken four year course, we could end up with all theory and no music. When we study music, we start to practice from the beginning, and we practice for the entire time, because there is. View quote
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It is easy to build a philosophy - it doesn't have to run. View quote
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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. View quote
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If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf. View quote
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We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model. View quote
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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 Kettering)
We find that in research a certain amount of intelligent ignorance is essential to progress; for, if you know too much, you won't try the thing. View quote
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We think we are smart because we have been flying for about sixty years. Birds and bees and butterflies have been flying for hundreds of thousands of years. View quote
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Logic is a way of going wrong systematically. View quote
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If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong. View quote
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