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Charles Kettering Quotes
23 quotes from Charles Kettering — Inventor and head of research at General Motors for 27 years..
“Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.”
“You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.”
“High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.”
“An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.”
“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.”
“A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.”
“The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.”
“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.”
“Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.”
“The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.”
“An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.”
“Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.”
“You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.”
“High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.”
“A problem well stated is a problem half solved.”
“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.”
“The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.”
“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.”
“Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.”
“The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.”
“An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.”
“The difference between intelligence and an education is this—that intelligence will make you a good living.”
“If I want to stop a research program I can always do it by getting a few experts to sit in on the subject, because they know right away that it was a fool thing to try in the first place.”