103 Quotes by Charles F. Kettering

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Logic is an organized way to go wrong with confidence. We should all know by now that a logical course is not always the right one.

People see the wrongness in an idea much quicker that the rightness.

A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.

Whenever you look at a piece of work and you think the fellow was crazy, then you want to pay some attention to that. One of you is likely to be, and you had better find out which one it is. It makes an awful lot of difference.

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

My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.

Every father should remember one day his son will follow his example, not his advice.

If I have had any success, it’s due to luck, but I notice the harder I work, the luckier I get.