Charles Kettering Quotes

A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.
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.
Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
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 working on it.
In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.
Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.
It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.
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.
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.
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.
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
One fails forward toward success.
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Charles Kettering
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29 August, 1876
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25 November, 1958
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