Charles Franklin Kettering

"An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots. "

"It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions. "

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

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

"People are very open-minded about new things--as long as they're exactly like the old ones. "

"The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution. "

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

"Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier. "

"You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time. "

"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. "