Charles Franklin Kettering is now and then known as Charles “Boss” Kettering was an American innovator, designer, financial specialist, and the holder of 186 licenses. He was an organizer of Delco, and was head of exploration at General Motors from 1920 to 1947.
Inspirational Charles Kettering Quotes:
1. “Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.” Charles Kettering
2. “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.” Charles Kettering
3. “Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.” Charles Kettering
4. “If you’re doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, then chances are you are doing it wrong.” Charles Kettering
5. “You can’t have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.” Charles Kettering
6. “Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.” Charles Kettering
7. “I expect to spend the rest of my life in the future, so I want to be reasonably sure of what kind of future it’s going to be. That is my reason for planning.” Charles Kettering
8. “Every father should remember one day his son will follow his example, not his advice.” Charles Kettering
9. “What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.” Charles Kettering
10. “99 percent of success is built on failure.” Charles Kettering
11. “A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.” Charles Kettering
12. “One fails forward toward success.” Charles Kettering
13. “An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn’t take his education too seriously.” Charles Kettering
14. “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
15. “In America, we can say what we think, and even if we can’t think, we can say it anyhow.” Charles Kettering
16. “Great steps in human progress are made by things that don’t work the way philosophy thought they should. If things always worked the way they should, you could write the history of the world from now on. But they don’t, and it is those deviations from the normal that make human progress.” Charles Kettering
17. “I am not interested in the past. I am interested in the future, for that is where I expect to spend the rest of my life.” Charles Kettering
18. “The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee on 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
19. “You can’t have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.” Charles Kettering
20. “People are very open-minded about new things as long as they’re exactly like the old ones.” Charles Kettering
21. “Logic is an organized way to go wrong with confidence.” Charles Kettering
22. “The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.” Charles Kettering
23. “The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.” Charles Kettering
24. “High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.” Charles Kettering
25. “How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.” George Bernard Shaw