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Charles Kettering

Charles Franklin Kettering (August 29, 1876 – November 24 or November 25, 1958) was an American inventor, engineer, businessman, and the holder of 186 patents.

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

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Charles Kettering

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

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Charles Kettering

An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.

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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.

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Charles Kettering

A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.

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Charles Kettering

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

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Charles Kettering

The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.

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Charles Kettering

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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Charles Kettering

One fails forward toward success.

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Charles Kettering

My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.

Tags: Yourself, Trying, Living

Charles Kettering

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