Quote: A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere. [Charles Kettering]
Quote: If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf. [Charles Kettering]
Quote: The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress. [Charles Kettering]
Quote: We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there. [Charles Kettering]
Quote: Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail. [Charles Kettering]
Quote: 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. [Charles Kettering]
Quote: 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]
Quote: 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. [Charles Kettering]
Quote: My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there. [Charles Kettering]
Quote: The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer. [Charles Kettering]
Quote: If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it. [Charles Kettering]
Quote: Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future. [Charles Kettering]
Quote: People are very open-minded about new things. As long as they are exactly like the old ones. [Charles Kettering]
Quote: There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand. [Charles Kettering]
Quote: There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it. [Charles Kettering]
Quote: Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax. [Charles Kettering]
Quote: Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement. [Charles Kettering]
Quote: 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. [Charles Kettering]
Quote: 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. [Charles Kettering]
Quote: If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong. [Charles Kettering]
Quote: A problem well stated is a problem half-solved. [Charles Kettering]
Quote: An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots. [Charles Kettering]
Quote: An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously. [Charles Kettering]
Quote: Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress. [Charles Kettering]
Quote: I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there. [Charles Kettering]