Charles Kettering Quotes - Page 2

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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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• One fails forward toward success.

  Charles Kettering

  Inspirational, Business, Failure

  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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• Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

  Charles Kettering

  Inspirational, Motivational, Hope

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• Why is the human skull as dense as it is? Nowadays we can send a message around the world in one-seventh of a second, but it takes years to drive an idea through a quarter-inch of human skull.

  Charles Kettering

  Years, Ideas, Skulls

  "Boss Ket: A life of Charles F. Kettering". Book by Rosamond McPherson Young, p. 194, 1961.

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• An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.

  Charles Kettering

  Education, Technology, Intelligence

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

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• Modern psychology teaches that experience is not merely the best teacher, but the only possible teacher.. There is no war between theory and practice. The most valuable experience demands both, and the theory should supplement the practice and not precede it.

  Charles Kettering

  Teacher, War, Practice

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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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• This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.

  Charles Kettering

  Technology, Simple, Looks

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  Charles Kettering

  School, Thinking, Done

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• Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.

  Charles Kettering

  May, Logic

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• There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

  Charles Kettering

  Leadership, Inspiration, Science

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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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• The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.

  Charles Kettering

  Success, Failure, Science

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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.

  Charles Kettering

  Teaching, Engineering, Years

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• 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 Kettering

  Crazy, Work, Science

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• What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.

  Charles Kettering

  Believe, Effort, Want

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

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• We work day after day, not to finish things; but to make the future better ... because we will spend the rest of our lives there.

  Charles Kettering

  Future, Hard Work, Science

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• 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 Kettering

  Time, Science, Progress

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• 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 Kettering

  Education, Stupid, Science

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

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• The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.

  Charles Kettering

  Motivational, Determination, Brother

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• The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.

  Charles Kettering

  Inspirational, Science, Opportunity

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

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