You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time. -Charles Kettering Time
Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress. -Charles Kettering Newyears
If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it. -Charles Kettering Business
We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there. -Charles Kettering Future
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. -Charles Kettering Work
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future. -Charles Kettering Imagination
Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress. -Charles Kettering Time
People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people. -Charles Kettering Science
The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer. -Charles Kettering Imagination
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there. -Charles Kettering Future
It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world. -Charles Kettering Failure
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. -Charles Kettering Failure
The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress. -Charles Kettering Change
A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere. -Charles Kettering Intelligence
An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously. -Charles Kettering Education
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down. -Charles Kettering Chance
