Quotes by Charles Kettering

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You can be sincere and still be stupid.

Charles Kettering

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

Charles Kettering

There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.

Charles Kettering

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

Charles Kettering

In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

Charles Kettering

If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.

Charles Kettering

The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.

Charles Kettering

A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.

Charles Kettering

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

Charles Kettering

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

Charles Kettering

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

Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.

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

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.

Charles Kettering

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

Charles Kettering

Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.

Charles Kettering

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.

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One fails forward toward success.

Charles Kettering

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 Kettering

We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Charles Kettering