Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The difference between intelligence and an education is this: that intelligence will make a good living for you, but education won't do much for you at all.
Charles Kettering
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Charles Kettering
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 29
Died: 1958
Died: November 25
Engineer
Entrepreneur
Inventor
Derby
Vermont
Charles Franklin Kettering
Much
Make
Good
Intelligence
Difference
Learning
Differences
Education
Living
More quotes by Charles Kettering
Education is man's going forward from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.
Charles Kettering
I think that the greatest education in the world is the education which helps one to be able to do the right things at the time it has to be done.
Charles Kettering
The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
Charles Kettering
You can send a message around the world in one-fifth of a second, yet it may take years for it to get from the outside of a man's head to the inside.
Charles Kettering
People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
Charles Kettering
The price of progress is trouble.
Charles Kettering
Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
Charles Kettering
Obsolescence is a factor which says that the new thing I bring you is worth more than the unused value of the old thing.
Charles Kettering
We have reason not to be afraid of the machine, for there is always constructive change, the enemy of machines, making them change to fit new conditions.
Charles Kettering
This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
Charles Kettering
The simplest way to assure sales is to keep changing the product the market for new things is indefinitely elastic. One of the fundamental purposes of advertising, styling, and research is to foster a healthy dissatisfaction.
Charles Kettering
If a fellow wants to be nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mailman to somebody on his behalf.
Charles Kettering
If I have had any success, it's due to luck, but I notice the harder I work, the luckier I get.
Charles Kettering
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
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
here is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot and not really understand anything.
Charles Kettering
No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
Charles Kettering
It is easy to build a philosophy - it doesn't have to run
Charles Kettering
We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
Charles Kettering
The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
Charles Kettering
