Charles F. Kettering Quotes

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

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

The future can be anything we want it to be, providing we have the faith and that we realize that peace, no less than war, required "blood and sweat and tears.".

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

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

It is easy to build a philosophy—it doesn't have to run.

Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.

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

A problem well stated is a problem half solved