Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
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
Fun
Living
Better
Whole
Trying
Something
Make
More quotes by Charles Kettering
One fails forward toward success.
Charles Kettering
Every great improvement has come after repeated failures. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
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
Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
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
In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.
Charles Kettering
A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
Charles Kettering
I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
Charles Kettering
One of the things we have to be thankful for is that we don't get as much government as we pay for.
Charles Kettering
We have been measuring too much in terms of the dollar. What we should do is think in terms of useful materials-things that will be of value to us in our daily life.
Charles Kettering
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
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
here is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot and not really understand anything.
Charles Kettering
Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
Charles Kettering
you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.
Charles Kettering
I am not interested in the past. I am interested in the future, for that is where I expect to spend the rest of my life.
Charles Kettering
Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
Charles Kettering
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
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
We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.
Charles Kettering
