An inventor is simply a fellow who doesnt take his education too seriously. – 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
People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people. – Charles Kettering
A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere. – 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
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future. – Charles Kettering
I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there. – Charles Kettering
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there. – 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
It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world. – Charles Kettering
The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress. – Charles Kettering
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. – Charles Kettering
