Quotes by Charles F. Kettering

“Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.”

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

“Problems are the price of progress. Dont bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.”

“A problem well stated is a problem half solved”

“An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, hes in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.”

“People are very open-minded about new things - as long as theyre exactly like the old ones.”

“You cant have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.”

“The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.”

“Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future”

“Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.”

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

“The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still - must close our minds for the moment with a snap, and act dogmatically on our conclusions”

“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.”

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

“My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there”

“The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.”

“The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.”

“The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing”

“A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere”

“My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.”