Charles Franklin Kettering Famous Quotes
"The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress."
"An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots."
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
"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."
The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
People are very open-minded about new things--as long as they're exactly like the old ones.
"Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier."
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Charles Franklin Kettering Quotations
"All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem."
Martin Luther King Jr
"From each, according to his ability to each, according to his need."
Karl Marx
"The only bad thing about keeping on burning your bridges Behind you, is that the world is round.."
Unknown
Like dealing with Dad-all give and no take. (On negotiating with Soviet Premier Nikita S Khrushchev)
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr
"Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses but when you have bad news, arouse me immediately, for then there is not an instant to be lost."
Napoleon Bonaparte
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
Albert Einstein
"There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants--more than anything else--to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are--and have always been."
Joseph Brooks
It is a great ability to be able to conceal one's ability.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.
William Penn