Charles Kettering Quotations

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

You are always too late with a development if you are so slow that people demand it before you yourself recognize it. The research department should have foreseen what was necessary and had it ready to a point where people never knew they wanted it until it was made available to them.

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

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

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.

If a fellow wants to be nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mailman to somebody on his behalf.

Every father should remember one day his son will follow his example, not his advice.

Every great improvement has come after repeated failures. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

The typical eye sees the ten per cent bad of an idea and overlooks the ninety per cent good.

I've never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.