Learn how to fail intelligently. Charles Kettering More Quotes by Charles Kettering More Quotes From Charles Kettering An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots. Charles Kettering motivationalpositivelife 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. Charles Kettering failureeducationart The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try. Charles Kettering failuresuccessscience 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 failureworkjobs The whole fun of living is trying to make something better. Charles Kettering something-betterfuntrying In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow. Charles Kettering ignorancescienceknowledge There has never been any 30-hour week for men who had anything to do. Charles Kettering weekworkmen The opportunities in this world are as great as we have the imagination to see them... but we never get that view from the bottom of the nest. Charles Kettering imaginationviewsopportunity People see the wrongness in an idea much quicker that the rightness. Charles Kettering errorsscienceideas I've never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down. Charles Kettering sitting-downpersistencecommitment The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer. Charles Kettering opportunityinspirationalscience The typical eye sees the ten per cent bad of an idea and overlooks the ninety per cent good. Charles Kettering judgementeyeideas When I was research head of General Motors and wanted a problem solved, I'd place a table outside the meeting room with a sign: "Leave slide rules here." If I didn't do that, I'd find someone reaching for his slide rule. Then he'd be on his feet saying, "Boss, you can't do it." Charles Kettering bossachievementfeet It is easy to build a philosophy - it doesn't have to run Charles Kettering easyrunningphilosophy In many ways ideas are more important than people - they are much more permanent. Charles Kettering importantpeopleideas The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind. Charles Kettering new-venturesminddiscovery 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 honestsciencefirsts We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things; there is no downcurve in science. Charles Kettering uncoveringkindergartenscience you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be. Charles Kettering learningwanthistory 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 learningrealpower
