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Charles F. Kettering Famous Quotations

Charles F Kettering (1876 - 1958) was an American inventor and the holder of over 300 patents. Kettering was a founder of Delco and was head of research for General Motors for 27 years. These famous quotes dealing with goals, achievement, and success have been attributed to him.

• An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.
• Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
• Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
• High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
• It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.
• It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.
• 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.
• One fails forward toward success.
• Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.
• 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.
• The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.
• The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
• The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.
• The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
• The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
• There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.
• There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.
• We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.
• 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.