Charles Kettering

Research is industrial prospecting. The oil prospectors use every scientific means to find new paying wells. Oil is found by each one of a number of methods. My own group of men are prospecting in a different field, using every possible scientific means. We believe there are still things left to be discovered. We have only stumbled upon a few barrels of physical laws from the great pool of knowledge. Some day we are going to hit a gusher.

99 percent of success is built on failure.

Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.

The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.

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

There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

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.

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

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

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

A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.