Our Friends Charles Franklin Kettering Quotes
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~ Chales Franklin Kettering Quote
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.
~ Chales Franklin Kettering Quote
An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.
~ Chales Franklin Kettering Quote
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.
~ Chales Franklin Kettering Quote
The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
~ Chales Franklin Kettering Quote
When I was research head of General Motors and wanted a problem solved, I'd place a table outside the meeting room with a sign: LEAVE SLIDE RULES HERE! If I didn't do that, I'd find some engineer reaching for his slide rule. Then he'd be on his feet saying, Boss you can't do that.
~ Chales Franklin Kettering Quote
Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble.
~ Chales Franklin Kettering Quote
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.
~ Chales Franklin Kettering Quote
We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.
~ Chales Franklin Kettering Quote
Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
~ Chales Franklin Kettering Quote
The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
~ Chales Franklin Kettering Quote
There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.
~ Chales Franklin Kettering Quote
There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.
~ Chales Franklin Kettering Quote
A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.
~ Chales Franklin Kettering Quote
An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.
~ Chales Franklin Kettering Quote