Quotes By Charles Kettering

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

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

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

Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.

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

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

If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.

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

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.

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.