Charles Kettering Quotes

There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.

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

No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.

It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.

Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.

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.

The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.

One fails forward toward success.

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

You can be sincere and still be stupid.

If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.

We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.

It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

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.

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

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.

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

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

People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.

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

A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.