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Charles Kettering, born on August 29, 1876 and died on November 25, 1958, was an American inventor and engineer renowned for his innovations in the automotive and electrical industries.

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“If we taught music the way we try to teach engineering, in an unbroken four year course, we could end up with all theory and no music. When we study music, we start to practice from the beginning, and we practice for the entire time.”

Ifs Way Trying Years Ends Courses Teach Practice Study Four Teaching Taught Theory Four Years Engineering Unbroken

Author:Charles Kettering

“The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.”

Trying Whole Fun Something Better

Author:Charles Kettering

“Research is an organized method of trying to find out what you are going to do after you cannot do what you are doing now. It may also be said to be the method of keeping a customer reasonably dissatisfied with what he has. That means constant improvement and change so that the customer will be stimulated to desire the new product enough to buy it to replace the one he has.”

Trying May Mean Said Enough Desire Products Research Method Constant Customers Improvement Organized Dissatisfied New Products Constant Improvement

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“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.”

Trying Jobs Work Teach Failing Failure Experience Train Experiments Employee Inventor Keep Trying Learning From Failure Inventions And Inventors Trying And Failing

Author:Charles Kettering

“The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.”

Trying Lasts Success Science Failing Failure Last Time Only Time Success And Failure Success Failure Failure Inspirational Learning From Failure Past Failures Trying And Failing

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“Failures, repeated failures, are sign-posts on the road to achievement. The only time you don't want to fail is the last time you try something (and it works).”

Want Trying Lasts Failing Achievement Adversity Posts Last Time Only Time Repeated Failure

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“It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.”

Ifs Giving Trying Doe Matter Science Failing Failure Giving Up Perseverance Persistence Cute Motivational Sports Persevere Try Again Don't Give Up Perseverence

Book:Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering

Source: Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering

“If I want to stop a research program I can always do it by getting a few experts to sit in on the subject, because they know right away that it was a fool thing to try in the first place.”

Ifs Knows Want Trying Firsts I Can Science Subjects Fool Research Program Experts Scientific Truth

Book:Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering

Source: Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering

“We suffer not from overproduction but from undercirculation. You have heard of technocracy. I wish I had those fellows for my competitors. I'd like to take the automobile it is said they predicted could be made now that would last fifty years. Even if never used, this automobile would not be worth anything except to a junkman in ten years, because of the changes in men's tastes and ideas. This desire for change is an inherent quality in human nature, so that the present generation must not try to crystallize the needs of the future ones.”

Ifs Men Needs Trying Years Humans Made Said Ideas Lasts Used Desire Suffering Wish Quality Generations Heard Human Nature Taste Ten Fellows Fifty Daily Life Inherent Competitors Automobile

Author:Charles Kettering

About the Author

Born: August 29, 1876
Died: November 25, 1958
Known for: Inventor
Quotes: 103

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Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. KetteringRelated source material

In Memoriam, Charles F. KetteringRelated source material

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