Quotes by Charles Kettering

An inventor is simply a person who doesn’t take his education too seriously. You see, from the time a person is six years old until he graduates form college he has to take three or four examinations a year. If he flunks once, he is out. But an inventor is almost always failing. He tries and fails…

An inventor is simply a person who doesn’t take his education too seriously. You see, from the time a person is six years old until he graduates form college he has to take three or four examinations a year. If he flunks once, he is out. But an inventor is almost always failing. He tries and fails…

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.

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.

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

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

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

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