Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
- Charles Kettering
New Year's, New, Calendar, Place
The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
- Charles Kettering
Fail, Only, Last, Last Time
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.
- Charles Kettering
Work, Will, Over, Employee
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.
- Charles Kettering
Work, Will, Over, Newly
The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
- Charles Kettering
Inspirational, Through, Wright
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
Chance, Stumble, Expecting, Chances
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
Learn, Teach, Need, Analyze
There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.
- Charles Kettering
Mind, Always, Exist, Limitless
People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
- Charles Kettering
Science, Think, Ever, Inventor
An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.
- Charles Kettering
Practice, Succeeds, Failures, Inventor
An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.
- Charles Kettering
Education, Take, His, Inventor
No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
- Charles Kettering
Ocean, Storm, Would, Crossed
There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.
- Charles Kettering
Mind, Always, Frontier, Open
The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.
- Charles Kettering
Problem, Only Difference, Between
Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.
- Charles Kettering
Knowing, About, Lot, Between
I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
- Charles Kettering
Rest, My Life, Going, Object
Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.
- Charles Kettering
News, Good News, Bring, Problems
People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.
- Charles Kettering
New Things, New, Very, Open-Minded
Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
- Charles Kettering
Brains, Material, Materials, Combination
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
- Charles Kettering
Brainy, Always, High, Framework
We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.
- Charles Kettering
Rest, Concerned, Lives, Our Lives
If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.
- Charles Kettering
You, Done, Always, Wrong
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
Stupid, Right, Still, Fellow
You can be sincere and still be stupid.
- Charles Kettering
Stupid, You, Still, Sincere
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
Limited, Composer, Opportunities
It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.
- Charles Kettering
Failure, World, Fail, Disgrace
In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.
- Charles Kettering
Think, Say, Even, Anyhow
A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
- Charles Kettering
Intelligence, Person, Amount, Intelligent
Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
- Charles Kettering
Funny, Been, Ever, Tax
There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.
- Charles Kettering
Understand, About, Lot, Knowing
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
Chance, Will, Still, Somewhere
If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.
- Charles Kettering
Business, World, Idea, Committee
The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
- Charles Kettering
Change, World, Brought, Hates
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
Fail, Again, Does, Try
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
- Charles Kettering
Tomorrow, Yesterday, Better, Thinking
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
- Charles Kettering
Future, Rest, My Life, Spend
One fails forward toward success.
- Charles Kettering
Success, Forward, Fails, Toward
A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.
- Charles Kettering
Well, Stated, Problem
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
- Charles Kettering
Future, Imagination, Only, Limit
Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
- Charles Kettering
Brainy, Act, Were, Fail
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