Charles Kettering
Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.Collection: New
If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.Collection: Business
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.Collection: Work
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.Collection: Future
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.Collection: Time
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.Collection: Chance
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.Collection: Brainy
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.Collection: Hope
People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.Collection: Science
Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.Collection: Brainy
The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Chance
The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.Collection: Imagination
One fails forward toward success.Collection: Success
Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.Collection: Funny
The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.Collection: Change
It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.Collection: Failure
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.Collection: Great
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.Collection: Failure
We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.Collection: Future
A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.Collection: Intelligence
A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.
People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.
Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.
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.
No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.
The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.
An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.
There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.
You can be sincere and still be stupid.
The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.
There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.
An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.
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.
Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.
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.
I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
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.Collection: Motivation
If you're doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are you are doing it wrong.Collection: Years
Every father should remember one day his son will follow his example, not his advice.Collection: Father
here is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot and not really understand anything.Collection: Life
The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.Collection: Fun
99 percent of success is built on failure.Collection: Success
Every great improvement has come after repeated failures. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.Collection: Success
Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.Collection: Mean
If I have had any success, it's due to luck, but I notice the harder I work, the luckier I get.Collection: Luck