Charles Kettering

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

Keep on going and chances are you stumble on something. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

There will always be a Frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.

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

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

We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.

Nothing ever built . . . arose to touch the skies unless some man dreamed that it should, some man believed that it could, and some man willed that it must.

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

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