Quotes by Charles Kettering

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

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"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."

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"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."

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"It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world."

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

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"My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there."

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

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

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

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

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"One fails forward toward success."

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"You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time."

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"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."

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

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