Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Charles Kettering
People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.
Charles Kettering
People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
Charles Kettering
Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.
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.
Charles Kettering
The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.
Charles Kettering
The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
Charles Kettering
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
The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
Charles Kettering
The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
Charles Kettering
There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.
Charles Kettering
There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.
Charles Kettering
There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.
Charles Kettering
Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
Charles Kettering
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
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
We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.
Charles Kettering
You can be sincere and still be stupid.
Charles Kettering
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
Charles Kettering
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
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