Charles Kettering
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.
Content: Quotation | Source: Unknown | Subjects: Management, Training & Development
Charles Kettering
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
Content: Quotation | Source: Unknown | Subject: Future
Charles Kettering
People are very open-minded about new things – as long as they’re exactly like the old ones.
Content: Quotation | Source: Unknown | Subjects: Change Management, Personality / Behavior
Charles Kettering
A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Content: Quotation | Source: Unknown | Subject: Problems / Solutions
Charles Kettering
The research state of mind can apply to anything; personal affairs or any kind of business, big or little. It is the problem solving mind as contrasted with the let-well-enough-alone mind. It is the composer mind instead of the fiddler mind. It is the ‘tomorrow’ mind instead of the ‘yesterday’ mind.
Content: Quotation | Source: Unknown | Subjects: Innovation, Problems / Solutions
Charles Kettering
There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.
Content: Quotation | Source: Unknown | Subject: Knowledge
Charles Kettering
Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
Content: Quotation | Source: Unknown | Subject: Decision Making
Charles Kettering
Obsolescence is a factor which says that the new thing I bring you is worth more than the unused value of the old thing.
Content: Quotation | Source: Unknown | Subjects: Innovation, Progress
Charles Kettering
The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress. A research problem is not solved by apparatus; it is solved in a man’s head. It is not what we know that is important, it is what we do not know.
Content: Quotation | Source: Unknown | Subjects: Change Management, Problems / Solutions
Malcolm Forbes
The dumbest people I know are those who know it all.
Content: Quotation | Source: Unknown | Subjects: Intelligence, Knowledge
Arthur Schopenhauer
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Content: Quotation | Source: Unknown | Subject: Ability
Vince Lombardi
Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
Content: Quotation | Source: Unknown | Subjects: Achievement, Goals
Peter Drucker
Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives. Ninety percent of the time you haven’t.
Content: Quotation | Author: Peter F. Drucker | Source: Unknown | Subject: Management
John Dewey
Imagination is a vantage point of the future from which we can consider that which is lacking in the present.
Content: Quotation | Source: Unknown | Subjects: Creativity, Innovation
Charles Kettering
Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.
Content: Quotation | Source: Unknown | Subjects: Action, Intelligence
John Wooden
All progress requires change. But not all change is progress.
Content: Quotation | Source: Unknown | Subjects: Change Management, Progress
Unknown
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by the age of 18.
Content: Quotation | Source: Unknown | Subjects: Knowledge, Perception
Mohandas Gandhi
A ‘No’ uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
Content: Quotation | Source: Unknown | Subjects: Communication, Conflict
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least.
Content: Quotation | Source: Unknown | Subject: Management
Bill Cosby
I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Content: Quotation | Source: Unknown | Subject: Success / Failure