Quotes by Kettering, Charles F.

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday a >>

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to >>

If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee worki >>

Quotations about Invention and Inventor

Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon tur >>

Invention strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of >>

The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly; in any other >>

An inventor is simply a person who doesn't take his education too seriously. You see, from the time a person is six years old until he graduates form college he has to take three or four examinations a year. If he flunks once, he is out. But an inventor is almost always failing. He tries and fails maybe a thousand times. It he succeeds once then he's in. These two things are diametrically opposite. We often say that 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.

Kettering, Charles F.