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Quotes by Charles Franklin Kettering

  • The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
  • An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.
  • It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
  • 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 only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.
  • You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
  • My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
  • People are very open-minded about new things--as long as they're exactly like the old ones.
  • Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.
  • Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.