Charles Kettering Quotes

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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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  A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.

  Charles Kettering

  Creativity, Engineering, Innovation

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

  Charles Kettering

  Inspirational, Motivational, Teacher

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 99 percent of success is built on failure.

  Charles Kettering

  Success, Fear, Failure

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

  Charles Kettering

  Mean, Library, Research

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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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• 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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• Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.

  Charles Kettering

  Stupidity, Insanity, World

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

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• People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.

  Charles Kettering

  Change, New Beginnings, Long

  Attributed to Charles Kettering in Ben Reed "Future Technology in Law Enforcement" (p. 15), 2009.

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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.

  Charles Kettering

  Men, Dumb, Doe

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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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• 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 I have had any success, it's due to luck, but I notice the harder I work, the luckier I get.

  Charles Kettering

  Luck, Harder, Ifs

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• A problem thoroughly understood is always fairly simple. Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are not true.

  Charles Kettering

  Simple, Prejudice, Facts

  "Dynamic Work Simplification" by W. Clements Zinck, (p. 122), 1971.

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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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