Words matter. These are the best Charles Kettering Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
In America we can say what we think, and even if we can’t think, we can say it anyhow.
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.
One fails forward toward success.
An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he’s in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.
There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.
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.
It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.
People are very open-minded about new things – as long as they’re exactly like the old ones.
The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.
If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.
Problems are the price of progress. Don’t bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.
A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
The only time you mustn’t fail is the last time you try.
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.
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.
No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.
Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.
There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.
The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
