Charles Kettering

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

“Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.”

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

“We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.”

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

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

“You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.”

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

“There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.”

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

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

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

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

“If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.”

“One fails forward toward success.”

“You can be sincere and still be stupid.”

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

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

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

“No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.”