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 o...”

“In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.”

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

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

“If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.”

“The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.”

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

“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...”

“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...”

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

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

“There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.”

“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.”

“Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.”

“People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.”

“An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.”

“An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.”

“The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.”

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