Charles F. Kettering

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.

Charles F. Kettering

Research is an organized method for keeping you reasonably dissatisfied with what you have.

Charles F. 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 F. Kettering

The future can be anything we want it to be, providing we have the faith and that we realize that peace, no less than war, required blood and sweat and tears.

Charles F. 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 F. Kettering

The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.

Charles F. Kettering

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

Charles F. Kettering

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

Charles F. Kettering

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

Charles F. Kettering

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

Charles F. Kettering