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Danh ngôn của Charles Kettering (Sứ mệnh: 4)

One fails forward toward success.
People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
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 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.
Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.
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.
A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
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.
We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.
The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.
Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.