“If you hang birdcages in your mind, you eventually get something to put in them.”
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Famous Charles Kettering Quotes
“People see the wrongness in an idea much quicker that the rightness.”
“Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.”
Source: Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering
“you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.”
Source: Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering
“The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.”
“The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.”
“There has never been any 30-hour week for men who had anything to do.”
“We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things; there is no downcurve in science.”
“High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.”
“People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.”
“The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.”
Source: In Memoriam, Charles F. Kettering
“Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.”
“It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.”
“No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.”
Source: Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering
“One fails forward toward success.”
Source: Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering
“The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.”
“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.”
Source: Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering
“You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.”
Source: Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering
Source: Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering
“Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.”
“A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.”