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One Quotes by Charles Kettering
- Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
- 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…
- 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…
- Every father should remember one day his son will follow his example, not his advice.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- You can send a message around the world in one-fifth of a second, yet it may take years for it to get from the outside…
- Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
- People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
- The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.
- It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.
- No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
- We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find…
- One fails forward toward success.
- Whenever you look at a piece of work and you think the fellow was crazy, then you want to pay some attention to that. One…
- Every father should remember that one day his son will follow his example instead of his advice.
More One Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Trust is the one most important base on which the beautiful building of strong friendship can be built. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare