Charles Kettering Quotes

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• Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
• 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…
• There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.
• An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.
• 99 percent of success is built on failure.
• The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
• In many ways ideas are more important than people - they are much more permanent.
• The person who doesn't know something can't be done will often find a way to go ahead and do it.
• If I have had any success, it's due to luck, but I notice the harder I work, the luckier I get.
• Research is industrial prospecting. The oil prospectors use every scientific means to find new paying wells. Oil is found by each one of a number…
• A research problem is not solved by apparatus; it is solved in a man's head.
• Bankers regard research as most dangerous a thing that makes banking hazardous due to the rapid changes it brings about in industry.
• I often say that research is a way of finding out what you are going to do when you can't keep on doing what you…
• 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…
• Research is an organized method for keeping you reasonably dissatisfied with what you have.
• The simplest way to assure sales is to keep changing the product the market for new things is indefinitely elastic. One of the fundamental purposes…
• All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules; otherwise we would never have anything new.
• I've never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
• If a fellow wants to be nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mailman to somebody on his behalf.
• Every father should remember one day his son will follow his example, not his advice.

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