Popular Quotes by Charles Kettering

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• The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

  Charles Kettering#Work 66

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• Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

  Charles Kettering#Imagination 65

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• A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.

  Charles Kettering#Problem 64

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• It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

  Charles Kettering#Failure 57

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• The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.

  Charles Kettering#Brothers 56

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• No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.

  Charles Kettering#Crossed 56

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• The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

  Charles Kettering#Change 52

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• Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.

  Charles Kettering#Brains 50

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• The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.

  Charles Kettering#Imagination 48

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• If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.

  Charles Kettering#Committee 48

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