Charles Kettering

An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously. ”

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

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. ”

The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility. ”

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

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

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. ”

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. ”

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

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress. ”