The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.

- Charles Kettering

People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.

- Charles Kettering

Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.

- Charles Kettering

There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.

- Charles Kettering

The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.

- Charles Kettering

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.

- Charles Kettering

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

- Charles Kettering

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

- Charles Kettering

I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.

- Charles Kettering

In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

- Charles Kettering

You can be sincere and still be stupid.

- Charles Kettering

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

- Charles Kettering

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.

- Charles Kettering

The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.

- Charles Kettering

We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.

- Charles Kettering

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

- Charles Kettering

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

- Charles Kettering

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

- Charles Kettering

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

- Charles Kettering

We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

- Charles Kettering