Quotes Charles Kettering

A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance...

A problem well stated is a problem half-solved....

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's i...

An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his educatio...

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail....

Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new...

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high...

I object to people running down the future. I am going to li...

If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong....

If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee w...

In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't th...

Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more...

It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail...

It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest...

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on someth...

Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on ...

Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference be...

My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the...

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the...

No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten ...

One fails forward toward success....

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to hav...

People are very open-minded about new things - as long as th...

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever...

Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything ...