CKCharles Kettering

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Charles Kettering

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Quotations and sayings

01Undated

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

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02Undated

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

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03Undated

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

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04Undated

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.

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05Undated

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

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06Undated

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.

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07Undated

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.

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08Undated

A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.

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09Undated

Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.

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10Undated

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

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11Undated

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.

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12Undated

Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

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13Undated

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

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14Undated

An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.

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15Undated

We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.

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