Charles Kettering Quotes

We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Charles Kettering

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: inventor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 29, 1876 - November 25, 1958

Topics

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Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

Max Frisch

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What we want to do is call attention to the fact that when workers and business work together, when you create a stakeholder model of corporate governance, where you understand that you can do well by your workers, you can do well by your shareholders and you can do well by your customers, that's how we create a virtuous cycle.

Tom Perez

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On an average day, we allow ourselves the fiction that we own a piece of our workplace. That's part of what it takes to get the job done. Deeper down, we know it's all on loan.

Mary Schmich

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Taxpayers don't need any more big government mandates that have proven to be disastrous.

Mike Rogers

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You used to be able to identify Sox fans in Yankee Stadium. They sat, slump-shouldered, with the same panicked expectation nervous motorists have looking in the rearview mirror at the 16-wheeler behind them on Interstate 95 near New Haven.

Mike Barnicle

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The question we ask is - if there is life on other planets, should we expect it to be based on the same molecules, i.e. be universal - or should we expect it to depend on the local conditions, i.e. on the planet's geochemistry. So to find out, we try experiments on biomolecules, starting with such geochemistry conditions.

Dimitar Sasselov

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I like playin' for an audience the best, though, I think.

Johnny Winter

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Preserve substance; modify form; know the difference.

Dee Hock

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When I was 4 years old, my brother and sister died of hunger, so I achieved my success through confidence, self-motivation and my hard work.

Chen Guangbiao

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Companies that have been built and operated for a long time are the most successful companies.

Brian Acton

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I hate bags. I never carry a bag. I am terrified of bags. I don't want to have to be responsible for that many things at one time.

Bridget Kelly

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I don't flirt and I don't play the people that I'm meeting with.

Sherilyn Fenn

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