No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm. – Charles Kettering
There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier. – Charles Kettering
Problems are the price of progress. Don’t bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me. – Charles Kettering
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. – Charles Kettering
People are very open-minded about new things – as long as they’re exactly like the old ones. – 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. – Charles Kettering
Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress. – Charles Kettering
Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it. – Charles Kettering
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. – Charles Kettering
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there. – Charles Kettering
People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people. – Charles Kettering
You can’t have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time. – Charles Kettering
The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution. – Charles Kettering
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. – Charles Kettering