Charles F. Kettering
Found 16 thoughts of Charles F. Kettering
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
Charles F. Kettering
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 F. Kettering
An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.
Charles F. Kettering
You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.
Charles F. Kettering
If we taught music the way we try to teach engineering, in an unbroken four year course, we could end up with all theory and no music. When we study music, we start to practice from the beginning, and we practice for the entire time, because there is no other way to become a musician. Neither can we become engineers just by studying a text book, because practical experience is needed to correlate the so called theory with practice.
Charles F. Kettering
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 time it has to be done.
Charles F. Kettering
If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.
Charles F. Kettering
It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.
Charles F. Kettering
We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to live the rest of our lives there.
Charles F. Kettering
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
Charles F. Kettering
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
Charles F. Kettering
There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.
Charles F. Kettering
Every great improvement has come after repeated failure. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are the posts on the road to achievement.
Charles F. Kettering
