Charles Kettering Quotes

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

A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.

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

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

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.

Every father should remember one day his son will follow his example, not his advice.

If you're doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are you are doing it wrong.

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

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.

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.

here is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot and not really understand anything.

The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.

99 percent of success is built on failure.

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.

Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.

No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.

It is the 'follow through' that makes the great difference between ultimate success and failure, because it is so easy to stop.

Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.

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

I don't want men of experience working for me. The experienced man is always telling me why something can't be done. The fellow who has not had any experience is so dumb he doesn't know a thing can't be done - and he goes ahead and does it.

If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.

All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules; otherwise we would never have anything new.

If I have had any success, it's due to luck, but I notice the harder I work, the luckier I get.

A problem thoroughly understood is always fairly simple. Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are not true.

Whenever you look at a piece of work and you think the fellow was crazy, then you want to pay some attention to that. One of you is likely to be, and you had better find out which one it is. It makes an awful lot of difference.