Failures, repeated failures, are sign-posts on the road to achievement. The only time you don't want to fail is the last time… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
Every great improvement has come after repeated failures. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world. — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
Research is an organized method of trying to find out what you are going to do after you cannot do what you are doing… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind. — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
If a fellow wants to be nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mailman to somebody on his behalf. — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress. — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
Great steps in human progress are made by things that don't work the way philosophy thought they should. If things always worked the way… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
Education is man's going forward from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier. — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be. — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
It is man's destiny to ponder on the riddle of existence and, as a byproduct of his wonderment, to create a new life on… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
We must look forward to the future as that is where most of us will be spending the rest of our lives. — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it. — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
If I want to stop a research program I can always do it by getting a few experts to sit in on the subject,… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand. — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
Obsolescence is a factor which says that the new thing I bring you is worth more than the unused value of the old thing. — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
Nothing ever built arose to touch the skies unless some man dreamed that it should, some man believed that it could, and some man… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it. — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
