Charles Kettering Quotes

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  A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.

  Charles Kettering

  Creativity, Engineering, Innovation

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• The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

  Charles Kettering

  Change, Moving On, Clever

  Charles Franklin Kettering (1959*). “In Memoriam, Charles F. Kettering”

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• High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

  Charles Kettering

  Inspirational, Motivational, Teacher

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• You can't have a better tomorrow if
  you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

  Charles Kettering

  Letting Go, Time, Attitude

  Charles Franklin Kettering (1961). “Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering”

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• If you're doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are you are doing it wrong.

  Charles Kettering

  Years, Way, Chance

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• I am not interested in the past. I am interested in the future, for that is where I expect to spend the rest of my life.

  Charles Kettering

  Motivation, Inspiration, Past

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• Every father should remember one day his son will follow his example, not his advice.

  Charles Kettering

  Father, Son, Advice

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• Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

  Charles Kettering

  Motivational, Positive, Faith

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• 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.

  Charles Kettering

  Cute, Perseverance, Motivational Sports

  Charles Franklin Kettering (1961). “Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering”

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• The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.

  Charles Kettering

  Fun, Trying, Something Better

  "Dynamic Work Simplification" by W. Clements Zinck, (p. 12), 1971.

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• 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 Kettering

  Motivational, Positive, Success

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• here is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot and not really understand anything.

  Charles Kettering

  Life, Wisdom, Knowledge

  "Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering".

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• Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.

  Charles Kettering

  Mean, Library, Research

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• Every great improvement has come after repeated failures. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

  Charles Kettering

  Success, Failure, Science

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• 99 percent of success is built on failure.

  Charles Kettering

  Success, Fear, Failure

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• Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

  Charles Kettering

  Science, Thinking, Taxation

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• No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.

  Charles Kettering

  Ocean, Achievement, Storm

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• Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.

  Charles Kettering

  Wisdom, Science, Discovery

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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

  Education, Art, Failure

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• Don't be afraid to stumble. Any inventor will tell you that you don't follow a plan far before you strike a snag. If, out of 100 ideas you get one that works, it's enough.

  Charles Kettering

  Ideas, Enough, Strikes

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• It is easy to build a philosophy - it doesn't have to run

  Charles Kettering

  Running, Philosophy, Easy

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• All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules; otherwise we would never have anything new.

  Charles Kettering

  Inspirational, Creativity, Innovation

  Charles Franklin Kettering (1961). “Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering”

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• If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.

  Charles Kettering

  Business, Ideas, World

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• It is the 'follow through' that makes the great difference between ultimate success and failure, because it is so easy to stop.

  Charles Kettering

  Inspirational, Differences, Insightful

  Charles Franklin Kettering (1961). “Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering”

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• The price of progress is trouble.

  Charles Kettering

  Progress, Trouble

  Charles Franklin Kettering (1961). “Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering”

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