Charles Kettering

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

— Charles Kettering

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

— Charles Kettering

If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.

— 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

You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

— Charles Kettering

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

— 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

An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.

— Charles Kettering

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

— Charles Kettering

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

— Charles Kettering

Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

— Charles Kettering

We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.

— Charles Kettering

It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

— Charles Kettering

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

— Charles Kettering

An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.

— Charles Kettering

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

— Charles Kettering

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

— Charles Kettering

You know, you read about the future. You can't help that. I don't look upon the future. I am not a politician. I am not worried about the future at all. I don't like to run it down. I don't like to think of it being too dark because I expect to spend all the rest of my life there and I don't want to have a nasty end to it.

— Charles Kettering

The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.

— Charles Kettering

A problem thoroughly understood is always fairly simple. Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are not true.

— Charles Kettering

The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.

— Charles Kettering

You are always too late with a development if you are so slow that people demand it before you yourself recognize it. The research department should have foreseen what was necessary and had it ready to a point where people never knew they wanted it until it was made available to them.

— Charles Kettering

Why is the human skull as dense as it is? Nowadays we can send a message around the world in one-seventh of a second, but it takes years to drive an idea through a quarter-inch of human skull.

— Charles Kettering

We find that in research a certain amount of intelligent ignorance is essential to progress; for, if you know too much, you won't try the thing.

— Charles Kettering

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

— Charles Kettering

Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

— Charles Kettering