Quotes from Charles F. Kettering

It is easy to build a philosophy. It doesn't have to run.

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble.

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

Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. The only time you don't want to fail is the last time you try something.... One fails forward toward success.

We need to teach a highly educated person 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 of the world.

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.

The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.

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

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

Don't be afraid to stumble. Any inventor will tell you that you don't follow a plan far before you strike a snag. If, out of 100 ideas you get one that works, it's enough.

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

One fails forward toward success.

Inventing is the mixing of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less materials you need.

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

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

Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment

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

You can be sincere and still be stupid.

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.

The difference between intelligence and education is this: intelligence will make you a good living.

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.