Top 40 Quotes by Charles Kettering

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

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

One fails forward toward success.

If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.

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

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

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.

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

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.