Quotes By 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.

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

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

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.

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

A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.

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

Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.

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