Quote

And there is the point exactly, we are all the time blaming difficulties on to something else. Our real trouble is that we are too soft to solve the problem.

Charles Kettering

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Charles Kettering
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 29
Died: 1958
Died: November 25
Engineer
Entrepreneur
Inventor
Derby
Vermont
Charles Franklin Kettering
Else
Solve
Power
Difficulty
Problem
Blame
Real
Exactly
Something
Learning
Time
Trouble
Blaming
Point
Difficulties
History
Soft

More quotes by Charles Kettering

Image
The price of progress is trouble.
Charles Kettering
Image
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
Image
Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
Charles Kettering
Image
It is man's destiny to ponder on the riddle of existence and, as a byproduct of his wonderment, to create a new life on this earth.
Charles Kettering
Image
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
Image
The person who doesn't know something can't be done will often find a way to go ahead and do it.
Charles Kettering
Image
What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.
Charles Kettering
Image
Nothing ever built arose to touch the skies unless some man dreamed that it should, some man believed that it could, and some man willed that it must.
Charles Kettering
Image
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
Image
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
Image
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
Image
Industry prospers when it offers people articles which they want more than they want anything they now have. The fact is that people never buy what they need. They buy what they want.
Charles Kettering
Image
We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
Charles Kettering
Image
Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles Kettering
Image
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
Charles Kettering
Image
The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
Charles Kettering
Image
All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules otherwise we would never have anything new.
Charles Kettering
Image
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
Image
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
Image
here is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot and not really understand anything.
Charles Kettering