Charles F. Kettering

“Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.”

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

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

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

“My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.”

“The price of progress is trouble.”

“It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.”

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

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

“Logic is an organized way of going wrong with confidence.”

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

“Research is a high-hat word for trying to do something and not knowing how to do it.”

“The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently.”