Kettering, Charles F. (Charles F. Kettering)

An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.
-- Charles F. Kettering

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
-- Charles F. Kettering

If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.
-- Charles F. Kettering

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
-- Charles F. Kettering

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.
-- Charles F. Kettering

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 F. Kettering

It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
-- Charles F. Kettering

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.
-- Charles F. Kettering

There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.
-- Charles F. Kettering

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

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