Charles Kettering Quotes

American - Inventor | August 29, 1876 - November 25, 1958

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

Charles Kettering

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

Charles Kettering

FutureHopeImaginationLimitOnly

There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.

Charles Kettering

MindWillHandAlwaysOpenFrontier

I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.

Charles Kettering

LifeFutureLiveI AmPeopleRest

If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.

Charles Kettering

YouWrongDoneWayAlways

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.

Charles Kettering

SciencePeopleThinkThinksHeEver

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

Charles Kettering

PeopleProblemSolutionUnderstand

You can be sincere and still be stupid.

Charles Kettering

StupidYouSincereStill

One fails forward toward success.

Charles Kettering

SuccessForwardTowardFails

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.

Charles Kettering

TimeManStupidYouDoneRight

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

ChanceYouGoWillMoreNever

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

Charles Kettering

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