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

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

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

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 will work.
Charles Kettering

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

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

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
Charles Kettering

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

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

There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.
Charles Kettering

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

Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
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 one of the greatest arts in the world.
Charles Kettering

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

We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.
Charles Kettering

You can be sincere and still be stupid.
Charles Kettering

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

You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.
Charles Kettering