All Charles Kettering Quotes
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
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People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.
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I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
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Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
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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.
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We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.
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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.
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The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.
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My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
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If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.
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A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
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An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.
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Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
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If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.
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Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
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