Quotes from Charles Kettering
Education is man's going forward from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.
- Charles Kettering
An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.
- Charles Kettering
The opportunities in this world are as great as we have the imagination to see them... but we never get that view from the bottom of the nest.
- Charles Kettering
A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
- Charles Kettering
Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.
- Charles Kettering
The difference between intelligence and an education is this: that intelligence will make a good living for you, but education won't do much for you at all.
- Charles Kettering
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.
- Charles Kettering
I often say that research is a way of finding out what you are going to do when you can't keep on doing what you are doing now.
- Charles Kettering
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.
- Charles Kettering
Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
- Charles Kettering
It is the 'follow through' that makes the great difference between ultimate success and failure, because it is so easy to stop.
- Charles Kettering
We have reason not to be afraid of the machine, for there is always constructive change, the enemy of machines, making them change to fit new conditions.
- Charles Kettering