Charles Kettering Quotes & Sayings

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

“Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.”

“A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.”

“There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.”

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

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

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

“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 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.”

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