Top 40 Quotes by 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.

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

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

One fails forward toward success.

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

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

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.