Charles Franklin Kettering, (1876 - 1958) Quotes

No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.

Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. The only time you don't want to fail is the last time you try something.... One fails forward toward success.

What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.

The greatest thing this generation can do is to lay a few stepping stones for the next generation.

If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mailman to somebody on his behalf.

The person who doesn't know something can't be done will often find a way to go ahead and do it.

When I was research head of General Motors and wanted a problem solved, I'd place a table outside the meeting room with a sign: LEAVE SLIDE RULES HERE! If I didn't do that, I'd find some engineer reaching for his slide rule. Then he'd be on his feet saying, "Boss you can't do that."

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the mad? to achievement. One fails? forward toward success.

When I was research head of General Motors and wanted a problem solved, I'd place a table outside the meeting room with a sign: LEAVE SLIDE RULES HERE! If I didn't do that, I'd find some engineer reaching for his slide rule. Then he'd be on his feet saying, Boss you can't do that.

The future can be anything we want it to be, providing we have the faith and that we realize that peace, no less than war, required blood and sweat and tears..