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Quotes of Charles F. Kettering

1962 American Track Athlete
  • A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere. (common sense)
  • If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf. (business)
  • The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress. (change)
  • We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there. (future)
  • Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail. (failure)
  • 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. (failure)
  • We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work. (failure)
  • 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 its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world. (failure)
  • My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there. (future)
  • The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer. (imagination)
  • If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it. (ideas)
  • Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future. (imagination)
  • People are very open-minded about new things. As long as they are exactly like the old ones. (tolerance)
  • There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand. (opportunity)
  • There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it. (understanding)
  • Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax. (thoughts and thinkin)
  • Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement. (achievement)
  • 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, required blood and sweat and tears. (blood)
  • Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down. (action)
  • If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong. (wrong)
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