Top 40 Quotes by Charles Kettering

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

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

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

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

One fails forward toward success.

Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.

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.

Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.

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.

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.