Charles Franklin Kettering sometimes known as Charles “Boss” Kettering was an American inventor, engineer, businessman, and holder of 186 patents. He was a founder of Delco and was head of research at General Motors from 1920 to 1947. These Charles Kettering Quotes will motivate you.
Best Charles Kettering Quotes
- “Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.” ~ Charles Kettering
- “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 life.” ~ Charles Kettering
- “A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.” ~ Charles Kettering
- “High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.” ~ Charles Kettering
- “If you’re doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are you are doing it wrong.” ~ Charles Kettering
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“Every father should remember one day his son will follow his example, not his advice.” ~ Charles Kettering
- “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.” ~ Charles Kettering
- “It is the ‘follow-through’ that makes the great difference between ultimate success and failure because it is so easy to stop.” ~ Charles Kettering
- “You can’t have a better tomorrow if
you are thinking about yesterday all the time.” ~ Charles Kettering - “It doesn’t matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.” ~ Charles Kettering
- “Research means that you don’t know, but are willing to find out.” ~ Charles Kettering
- “All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules; otherwise we would never have anything new.” ~ Charles Kettering
- “Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.” ~ Charles Kettering
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“99 percent of success is built on failure.” ~ Charles Kettering
- “here is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot and not really understand anything.” ~ Charles Kettering
- “Learn how to fail intelligently.” ~ Charles Kettering
- “This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.” ~ Charles Kettering
- “My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.” ~ Charles 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 Kettering
- “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 to achievement. One fails forward toward success.” ~ Charles Kettering
- “People are very open-minded about new things – as long as they’re exactly like the old ones.” ~ Charles Kettering
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“You must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.” ~ Charles Kettering
- “The only time you mustn’t fail is the last time you try.” ~ Charles Kettering
- “There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.” ~ Charles Kettering
- “The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.” ~ Charles Kettering
- “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
- “It is easy to build a philosophy – it doesn’t have to run” ~ Charles Kettering
- “One fails forward toward success.” ~ Charles Kettering
- “The Wright brothers flew right through the smokescreen of impossibility.” ~ Charles Kettering
- “What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.” ~ Charles Kettering
- “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.” ~ Charles Kettering
- “Problems are the price of progress. Don’t bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.” ~ Charles Kettering
- “I don’t want men of experience working for me. The experienced man is always telling me why something can’t be done. The fellow who has not had any experience is so dumb he doesn’t know a thing can’t be done – and he goes ahead and does it.” ~ Charles Kettering Quotes
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“An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn’t take his education too seriously.” ~ Charles Kettering
- “Why is the human skull as dense as it is? Nowadays we can send a message around the world in one-seventh of a second, but it takes years to drive an idea through a quarter-inch of human skull.” ~ Charles Kettering
- “If I want to stop a research program I can always do it by getting a few experts to sit in on the subject because they know right away that it was a fool thing to try in the first place.” ~ Charles Kettering
- “A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.” ~ Charles Kettering
- “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 that it must.” ~ Charles Kettering
- “The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.” ~ Charles Kettering
- “And there is the point exactly, we are all the time blaming difficulties on to something else. Our real trouble is that we are too soft to solve the problem.” ~ Charles Kettering
- “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 of methods. My own group of men are prospecting in a different field, using every possible scientific means. We believe there are still things left to be discovered. We have only stumbled upon a few barrels of physical laws from the great pool of knowledge. Some day we are going to hit a gusher.” ~ Charles Kettering
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“Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.” ~ Charles Kettering
- “Modern psychology teaches that experience is not merely the best teacher, but the only possible teacher.. There is no war between theory and practice. The most valuable experience demands both, and the theory should supplement the practice and not precede it.” ~ Charles Kettering
- “Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.” ~ Charles Kettering
- “No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.” ~ Charles Kettering
I learned very early in my working life that “Nothing is impossible”. Just a simple statement in the context of the ad agency industry. Has worked exceptionally well throughout my life.