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Charles Kettering

14 quotes

We may not know everything about Charles Kettering, but we know they had a way with words. The range of their thinking — from Future to Imagination — speaks to an intellectual restlessness that shows in every quote. Browse 16 quotes by Charles Kettering that cover ground from Future, Imagination, Failure, Work, and Success. A favorite of many readers: "A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere."

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

— Charles Kettering

Intelligence

All Quotes by Charles Kettering

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

— Charles Kettering

Business

“My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.”

— Charles Kettering

Future

“We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.”

— Charles Kettering

Failure

“I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.”

— Charles Kettering

Future

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

— Charles Kettering

Failure

“One fails forward toward success.”

— Charles Kettering

Success

“The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.”

— Charles Kettering

Change

“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 Kettering

Imagination

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

— Charles Kettering

Science

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

— Charles Kettering

Future

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

— Charles Kettering

Intelligence

“We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.”

— Charles Kettering

Future

“The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee 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

Work

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

— Charles Kettering

Education