Charles F. Kettering Quotes

• 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.

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• We should all be concerned with the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.

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• Every father should remember that one day his son will follow his example instead of his advice.

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• In America we can say what we think, and even if we can’t think, we can say it anyhow.

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• I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.

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• We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

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• I bought him an attractive bird cage made in Switzerland.

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• We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to live the rest of our lives there.

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• The only difference between intelligence and education is this: intelligence will make you a good living.

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• We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they’ve never had to present a working model.

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• There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

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• The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.

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• It is easy to build a philosophy – it doesn’t have to run.

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• It’s amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.

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• Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.

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• 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.

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• The future can be anything we want it to be, providing we have the faith and that we realize that peace, no less than war, required ‘blood and sweat and tears.

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• People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.

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• 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.

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• Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.

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Charles F. Kettering (43)

Birth:	29th August, 1876
Death:	25th November, 1958
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Businessman, Electrical Engineer, Inventor

About

Charles Franklin Kettering was born in Loudonville, Ohio. He was an American businessman, Electrical Engineer and Inventor. He was a founder of Delco, and was head of research at General Motors from 1920 to 1947. Among his most widely used automotive developments were the electrical starting motor and leaded gasoline. He led the advancement of practical, lightweight two-stroke diesel engines, revolutionizing the locomotive and heavy equipment industries. In 1927, he founded the Kettering Foundation, a non-partisan research foundation. He graduated from OSU in 1904 with an electrical engineering degree.

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