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

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

If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.
- Charles Kettering Quote

If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.
- Charles Kettering Quote

In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.
- Charles Kettering Quote

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

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.
- Charles Kettering Quote

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.
- Charles Kettering Quote

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

One fails forward toward success.
- Charles Kettering Quote

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
- Charles Kettering Quote

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
- Charles Kettering Quote

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

The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.
- Charles Kettering Quote

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

The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
- Charles Kettering Quote

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

There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.
- Charles Kettering Quote

Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
- 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

You can be sincere and still be stupid.
- Charles Kettering Quote

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