Charles Kettering

Inventor

United States

1876 - 1958

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There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.
Charles Kettering
Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.
Charles Kettering
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
Charles Kettering
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
Charles Kettering
People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.
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
I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
Charles Kettering
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
Charles Kettering
A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.
Charles Kettering
Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
Charles Kettering