Charles Kettering Quotes

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• Every great improvement has come after repeated failures. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road… Achievement
• I am not interested in the past. I am interested in the future, for that is where I expect to spend the rest of my… Expect
• The typical eye sees the ten per cent bad of an idea and overlooks the ninety per cent good. Bad
• Nothing ever built arose to touch the skies unless some man dreamed that it should, some man believed that it could, and some man willed… Arose
• The future can be anything we want it to be, providing we have the faith and that we realize that peace, no less than war,… Blood
• Do not bring me your successes; they weaken me. Bring me your problems; they strengthen me. Bring
• Great steps in human progress are made by things that don't work the way philosophy thought they should. If things always worked the way they… Always Worked
• Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out. Find
• In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow. America
• We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model. Inspirational
• When I was research head of General Motors and wanted a problem solved, I'd place a table outside the meeting room with a sign: "Leave… Achievement
• The price of progress is trouble. Inspirational
• It is easy to build a philosophy - it doesn't have to run Build
• 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… Afraid
• If you're doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are you are doing it wrong. Been
• I expect to spend the rest of my life in the future, so I want to be reasonably sure of what kind of future it's… Expect
• 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… Able
• We have reason not to be afraid of the machine, for there is always constructive change, the enemy of machines, making them change to fit… Afraid
• We suffer not from overproduction but from undercirculation. You have heard of technocracy. I wish I had those fellows for my competitors. I'd like to… Anything Except
• We have been measuring too much in terms of the dollar. What we should do is think in terms of useful materials-things that will be… Been

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