Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
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
Science
Message
Around
Messages
May
Habit
Take
Leadership
Years
Outside
Men
Second
World
Inside
Fifth
Head
Send
More quotes by Charles Kettering
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
Every honest researcher I know admits he's just a professional amateur. He's doing whatever he's doing for the first time. That makes him an amateur. He has sense enough to know that he's going to have a lot of trouble, so that makes him a professional.
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
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
It is easy to build a philosophy - it doesn't have to run
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
We work day after day, not to finish things but to make the future better ... because we will spend the rest of our lives there.
Charles Kettering
The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.
Charles Kettering
It is the 'follow through' that makes the great difference between ultimate success and failure, because it is so easy to stop.
Charles Kettering
I don't want men of experience working for me. The experienced man is always telling me why something can't be done. The fellow who has not had any experience is so dumb he doesn't know a thing can't be done - and he goes ahead and does it.
Charles Kettering
Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
Charles Kettering
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
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
Charles Kettering
The price of progress is trouble.
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
I could do nothing without my problems they toughen my mind. In fact, I tell my assistants not to bring me their successes for they weaken me, but rather to bring me their problems, for they strengthen me.
Charles Kettering
This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
Charles Kettering
Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
Charles Kettering
We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
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
