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

— Charles Kettering

A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.

— Charles Kettering

Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.

— Charles Kettering

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

— Charles Kettering

If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.

— Charles Kettering

It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

— Charles Kettering

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

One fails forward toward success.

— Charles Kettering

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

— Charles Kettering

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

— Charles Kettering