Charles F. Kettering
15 quotations
Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.
The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.
People are very open-minded about new things. As long as they are exactly like the old ones.
If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.
A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.