Famous Quotes / Charles Kettering
18 Quotations by Charles Kettering
- 1. A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
- 2. A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.
- 3. An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.
- 4. Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
- 5. If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.
- 6. Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you n ...
- 7. It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.
- 8. It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
- 9. Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can ...
- 10. People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of oth ...
- 11. Teach educated people to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.
- 12. The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to tra ...
- 13. The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.
- 14. There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will alway ...
- 15. We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze ...
- 16. We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently.. ...
- 17. When I was research head of General Motors and wanted a problem solved, I'd place a table outside th ...
- 18. You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.