Charles Kettering Quotations | Page 2

We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.

Great steps in human progress are made by things that don't work the way philosophy thought they should. If things always worked the way they should, you could write the history of the world from now on. But they don't, and it is those deviations from the normal that make human progress.

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.

I've never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

The typical eye sees the ten per cent bad of an idea and overlooks the ninety per cent good.

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.

Every father should remember one day his son will follow his example, not his advice.

If a fellow wants to be nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mailman to somebody on his behalf.

You are always too late with a development if you are so slow that people demand it before you yourself recognize it. The research department should have foreseen what was necessary and had it ready to a point where people never knew they wanted it until it was made available to them.

If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

I bought him an attractive bird cage made in Switzerland,

The only difference between intelligence and education is this: intelligence will make you a good living

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

An inventor is simply a person who doesn't take his education too seriously. You see, from the time a person is six years old until he graduates form college he has to take three or four examinations a year. If he flunks once, he is out. But an inventor is almost always failing. He tries and fails maybe a thousand times. It he succeeds once then he's in. These two things are diametrically opposite. We often say that 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.

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

It is the follow through that makes the great difference between ultimate successand failure, because it is so easy to stop.