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Learn how to fail intelligently.
— 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
We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things; there is no downcurve in science.
— Charles Kettering
A research problem is not solved by apparatus; it is solved in a man's head.
— Charles Kettering
One fails forward toward success.
— Charles Kettering
We must look forward to the future as that is where most of us will be spending the rest of our lives.
— Charles Kettering
The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
— Charles Kettering
The opportunities in this world are as great as we have the imagination to see them ... but we never get that view from the bottom of the nest.
— Charles Kettering
What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.
— Charles Kettering
We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.
— Charles Kettering
Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
— Charles Kettering
The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
— Charles Kettering
People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.
— Charles F. Kettering
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
— Charles Kettering
Every father should remember one day his son will follow his example, not his advice.
— Charles Kettering
A problem thoroughly understood is always fairly simple. Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are not true.
— 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
One of the things we have to be thankful for is that we don't get as much government as we pay for.
— Charles Kettering
This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
— Charles Kettering
If a fellow wants to be nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mailman to somebody on his behalf.
— Charles Kettering
It is man's destiny to ponder on the riddle of existence and, as a byproduct of his wonderment, to create a new life on this earth.
— Charles Kettering
I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
— Charles Kettering
It is easy to build a philosophy - it doesn't have to run
— Charles Kettering
If you're doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are you are doing it wrong.
— Charles Kettering
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
— Charles F. Kettering Foundation
Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
— Charles Kettering
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
— Charles Kettering
The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.
— Charles Kettering
Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.
— Charles Kettering
If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.
— Charles Kettering
The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
— Charles Kettering
It is the 'follow through' that makes the great difference between ultimate success and failure, because it is so easy to stop.
— Charles Kettering
If I have had any success, it's due to luck, but I notice the harder I work, the luckier I get.
— Charles Kettering
There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.
— Charles Kettering
Do not bring me your successes; they weaken me. Bring me your problems; they strengthen me.
— Charles Kettering
Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
— Charles Kettering
Nothing ever built arose to touch the skies unless some man dreamed that it should, some man believed that it could, and some man willed that it must.
— Charles Kettering
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
— Charles Kettering
I think that the greatest education in the world is the education which helps one to be able to do the right things at the time it has to be done.
— Charles Kettering
A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.
— Charles Kettering
In many ways ideas are more important than people - they are much more permanent.
— Charles Kettering
If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.
— Charles Kettering
The typical eye sees the ten per cent bad of an idea and overlooks the ninety per cent good.
— Charles Kettering
Research is an organized method for keeping you reasonably dissatisfied with what you have.
— Charles Kettering
The difference between intelligence and an education is this-that intelligence will make you a good living.
— Charles Kettering
You must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.
— Charles Kettering
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.
— Charles Kettering
A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
— Charles Kettering
All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules; otherwise we would never have anything new.
— Charles Kettering
I am not interested in the past. I am interested in the future, for that is where I expect to spend the rest of my life.
— Charles Kettering
People see the wrongness in an idea much quicker that the rightness.
— Charles Kettering
Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.
— Charles Kettering
An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.
— Charles Kettering
Bankers regard research as most dangerous a thing that makes banking hazardous due to the rapid changes it brings about in industry.
— Charles Kettering
Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
— Charles Kettering
Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
— Charles F. Kettering
The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
— Charles Kettering
We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.
— Charles Kettering
We work day after day, not to finish things; but to make the future better ... because we will spend the rest of our lives there.
— Charles Kettering
No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
— Charles Kettering
Logic is an organized way to go wrong with confidence. We should all know by now that a logical course is not always the right one.
— Charles F. Kettering
The person who doesn't know something can't be done will often find a way to go ahead and do it.
— Charles Kettering
There has never been any 30-hour week for men who had anything to do.
— Charles Kettering
You can send a message around the world in one-fifth of a second, yet it may take years for it to get from the outside of a man's head to the inside.
— Charles Kettering
The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
— Charles Kettering
The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.
— Charles Kettering
Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
— Charles Kettering
In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.
— Charles Kettering
Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
— Charles Kettering
An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.
— Charles Kettering
The price of progress is trouble.
— Charles Kettering
Obsolescence is a factor which says that the new thing I bring you is worth more than the unused value of the old thing.
— Charles Kettering
99 percent of success is built on failure.
— Charles Kettering