(46 quotes found)
“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 F. Kettering
“The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.”
“If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.”
“Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.”
“Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.”
“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.”
“People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.”
“The future can be anything we want it to be, providing we have the faith and that we realize that peace, no less than war, required 'blood and sweat and tears”
“I think that the greatest education in the world is the education which helps one to be able to do the right things at the time it has to be done.”
“Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.”